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...allies can arrest or kill them. Counterterrorism experts believe that the old al-Qaeda organization commanded by bin Laden may be expiring and that a new, more elusive generation of extremists apparently inspired by al-Qaeda's ruthless vision--men like Jamal Zougam, 30, a cell-phone salesman arrested for the Madrid bombings, and Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, 37, the Jordanian suspected of orchestrating violence in Iraq--has taken up the banner. Barely recognizable even to officials who make a living tracking terrorists, the new jihadists proved in Madrid that they can evade detection while they hatch their plots...
...make a real movie. (With his lyric gift and Manhattan prominence, I can't figure why he hadn't worked on a Broadway show in the '30s.) He got his chance when producer Stanley Kramer, then the serious young producer of note ("Champion," "The Men," "Death of a Salesman," "High Noon"), signed him to write the script and lyrics for an ambitious musical, "The 5,000 Fingers...
...cartoons or his children's books, Geisel had the great salesman's gift for distilling an idea, making it glamorous and amusing - selling without shouting. Recognizing this, Standard Oil put him on other products, such as the auto additive Esso-lube. A Seussian creature would lurk on a car hood: Beware the "Moto-raspus"! Battle the "Karbo-nockus"! (Standard's oil to the rescue.) In a nod to dad, he also worked for Schaefer Beer; one cartoon had a stuffed moose head that comes to enthusiastic life when a waiter walks by with a bottle of Schaefer Bock Beer...
HONG KONG There's only one watch brand that men here buy. "It's always Rolex," says salesman Stanley Chan, at the Precision Watch Co. The most popular model is the black-face Oyster Perpetual ($3,950), below...
...painting, in which buckets of pigment are applied to vast tarpaulins, sails and boxing-ring mats. His retrospective, "Julian Schnabel Paintings 1978-2003," at the Schirn Museum until April 25, has attracted more ink than anything since Christo wrapped up the Reichstag. Paint could hardly find a more forceful salesman. Schnabel's wide-ranging postmodern repertoire offers something for almost everybody to like, though of course he has high-level, high-volume detractors. In Frankfurt, Schnabel and his Basque wife, Olatz, a stunning former model, were feted like movie stars, with 20 TV appearances, an eight-page spread in German...