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George Tenet's limousine was pulling up near the Gaza Strip for a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Thursday afternoon when the car's secure phone rang. The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv was on the horn, relaying a hurried call from Israeli officials, who claimed that the road crossing the CIA director was approaching was blocked; he couldn't enter Palestinian territory. What the Israelis didn't tell him was that their helicopter gunships were just miles away, about to rake targets near Arafat's Gaza City headquarters, and they didn't want Tenet caught in the cross...
...schoolmate called me. We discussed our cause on our way to school. Everything was the same at the school: the same teachers, the same students, the textbooks, the chalkboards. We started our day by reciting poems for Palestine. The bell rang for the first class, a science lesson. The teacher entered. She began talking. I was not listening. I thought about our martyrs and wounded. I thought of the 13-year-old child who fell a martyr. How sad is his mother? I am proud of him. He was from my region. He was killed on his way back home...
...Candice Bergen and Lily Tomlin were intrigued by the bit but had to pass--or rather, not pass. Finally Midler said, "Why don't we just go for the biggest star we can get? Why don't we call Jack Nicholson?" With the crew giggling around the phone, she rang up the Joker himself...
...Finally, only one song could wrap up this festival of frenzy. I put my pen and note pad down and busted out with the familiar three jumps and three nods of the head every time the words "Bye, Bye, Bye!" rang out. The laser lights and fireworks encompassed the stadium...and then, sigh, the fabulous five disappeared from the stage...
...were told we had an hour. There were 40 minutes left. The cell phone rang. "Drive the van to the alley behind the coffee shop," said the interpreter. "And wait...