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...intel on these people?" asks a senior FBI official. "Even after all this time, there are no documents and nothing in the humint [human intelligence]." Which raises the spookiest possibility of all: that there could be another al-Qaeda cell out there, just as good--just as quiet--as the one that mounted the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. That's why assessing the capabilities of al-Qaeda now is so important...
...star-obsessed culture, Rowley is a healthy reminder that it's often people who shun the limelight--strong-willed people with more guts than glamour--who force themselves to step up and speak out when everyone else is keeping quiet. She dresses simply and wears large spectacles that have a habit of sliding down her nose. She takes her lunch to work every day and often arrives long before any of her co-workers. "She goes the extra mile on everything," says Larry Brubaker, a retired agent and former colleague. "Coleen always looks stressed. She is very high energy...
...muggy afternoon in Suginami, an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Tokyo, and Keiichi Onizawa was strolling home from the train station. The 68-year-old journalist was alone on a quiet street sheltered by cherry trees along the Kanda River. Suddenly, he heard footsteps, then a loud voice: "You bastard!" Onizawa turned around to see two muscular young men rushing him. The shorter, stockier one swung an iron pipe at his head; Onizawa blocked it but the metal tore into his arm. A second blow ripped through his shirt and the flesh on his shoulder. For good measure, the taller...
...victims identified, the job was finished. In a tribute to the 1,730 WTC victims whose remains may never be found, workers, flanked by silent mourners, carried a final empty stretcher draped in an American flag out of the pit. Only bagpipes and bugles broke the eerie quiet...
...interviewer. Sacked, humiliated or verbally roasted players and outmaneuvered club directors appear at regular intervals in The Boss to wonder at his concept of fairness. Yet at the heart of Ferguson's managerial success lies the fierce loyalty he evokes in his clubmates and which he repays with quiet encouragement and - ever the union man - a refusal to rebuke his players publicly for their misdemeanors on the pitch. Perhaps the most telling influence on Ferguson was his father Alex, who supported his early career as a player with his presence but never his congratulations - even when he'd scored four...