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...reputation as a charmer and a ladies' man. When Yousef and Mohammed weren't plotting destruction together in Manila, they were partying, say Philippine intelligence agents. Mohammed took up with a bar girl he met at the Cotton Candy Club. Later he hired a helicopter and pilot to impress a female dentist he was courting. Yousef and Mohammed took their girlfriends scuba diving at beach resorts, but Mohammed remained an enigma even to the women he dated. None suspected that Mohammed, who passed himself off as a Saudi plywood exporter, was the leader of a radical Islamic cell...
...chain of command? Or both? Senator Allard has publicly identified Brigadier General S. Taco Gilbert III, the commandant of cadets, as a "common thread" in reports of women victims who felt they were treated punitively or indifferently. For the academy superintendent, Lieut. General John R. Dallager, a combat pilot with 600-plus hours' flying over hot spots like Southeast Asia and Bosnia--and the father of three daughters in the military--the scandal has been devastating. "There is a power relationship," he notes. "There is a potential for abuse...
...risk is, we won't capture the feeling the movie had," says a hyped-up, makeup-free Vardalos, sitting in her dressing room in jeans, a blue button-down shirt and thin, black rectangular glasses. "It's a big risk. I definitely feel everybody will be staring at the pilot and making the decision whether it's like the movie or not. I feel like a fearless idiot, but I think if I write from my heart and what I think is funny--even if the audience doesn't respond to it--I haven't failed...
...Corbett replacement for the husband, Steven Eckholdt (who played the part in the original pilot), even has a new name, Thomas instead of Ian. Vardalos has also changed her character's name from Toula to Nia, partly to help brand herself but also to update the character to the calmer, more mature person she has become. "Toula was a little more repressed," she says. "Toula worked in my shier stage of life. But Nia is who I am. Toula was sweet and wry. Nia is wry, sweet and smart-alecky." (After you pass $200 million, no one stops you from...
...Muntaha is, after all, a creature of Saddam's Iraq. "The president has looked after me," she says. A member of the ruling Ba'ath Party since she was 12, she was married just three months when her fighter-pilot husband was killed in 1981, an early victim of the Iraq-Iran war. Ever since, she's been wedded to the state, drawing her husband's pension, teaching 'home science' at a government-run high school for girls, and volunteering at the General Federation of Iraqi Women. Her daughter Sabreen, 21, studies journalism at Baghdad University, and Muntaha hopes...