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Then the phone rang, and Delaney-Smith was on call again—for a team far away from Cambridge, whose roster was full of collegiate All-Americans and future WNBA All-Stars...
Very few screenwriters get kidnapped. In Hollywood, where most of them live and work, they're considered low-value targets. But moments after arriving in Beirut in 2002, Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of Traffic, found himself in what seemed to be a hostage situation. His cell phone rang, and the voice on the other end said, "I've got something really special you can do, but you have to do it right now and I can't tell you what it is." Gaghan walked out of the airport and got into a car with a stranger. As they...
...bantered in Perle's palatial kitchen until Gaghan, at that point quite knowledgeable about the Middle East, questioned the viability of Perle's friend Ahmad Chalabi as a future Iraqi leader. "[Perle] steepled his hands just like Mr. Burns on The Simpsons and stared at me. Then the doorbell rang--beat ... beat ... beat--'Excellent. I'll introduce you to Bibi on the way out.'" (Neither Perle nor former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned calls for comment...
...sound of squeaky sneakers rang in Parker's ears even when she was a young child. Her mother Sara cradled 2-week-old Candace in a gym while watching eldest son Anthony play an A.A.U. game (Anthony, 30, spent three years in the NBA and now plays professionally in Israel). Growing up in Naperville, Ill., a Chicago suburb, Parker initially rebelled against the family passion, until seventh grade, when her height practically demanded that she take up the game. Her father Larry, who played at the University of Iowa in the 1970s, doubled as her A.A.U. coach...
...into the ground," says Wes Christian, part of a legal team headed by billionaire Texas tobacco litigator John O'Quinn, who is amassing a case against Badian, other hedge funds and now possibly Refco. Refco declined to comment. Badian didn't come to the door when a TIME reporter rang his bell. His lawyer in the civil cases, Perrie Weiner, says that the suits against Badian have "not a shred of merit" and that courts have consistently dismissed such cases...