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Time, of course, works to the terrorists' advantage. The other lesson underscored by the London bombings is that despite losing their command-and-control structures, the terrorists have adjusted. After Richard Reid's foiled attempt to detonate the bomb in his shoe on an American Airlines flight in December 2001, jihadists have mostly avoided hard targets such as planes and government buildings. Instead they attack nightclubs, hotels--and commuter rails. The newer terrorist network has found that even in a war zone like Afghanistan, spending a little on motorcycles and satellite phones can make killing infidels that much easier...
Downstairs, a handful of shoppers rummage through clothes piled a foot deep across a wide expanse of floor space at Dollar a Pound+. (In fact, merchandise is currently priced at $1.50 per pound.) A shoe section offers used wingtips and new knee-high boots and stack-heeled monstrosities. Upstairs, clothing is more or less organized into racks of new, used, and vintage ’60s and ’70s duds...
...GARDEN SHOE...
Everywhere maxine clark goes, people ask her, "Are you the bear lady?" And it's not because she has a cuddly stuffed bear named Curly strapped into the backseat of her car. A former shoe executive, Clark, 56, is the founder and chief executive of Build-A-Bear Workshop, a mall-based toy retailer that has sold more than 26 million customer-made teddies ($10 to $25 each; outfits and accessories cost extra) since it opened its first store in St. Louis , Mo., eight years ago. Today the chain has more than 180 U.S. stores and 16 overseas franchises; last...
...most diverse and appealing actors of his generation, at home on Broadway as a runaway soldier in Shaw's Arms and the Man or a rapacious, loony buccaneer in The Pirates of Penzance, onscreen as a psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice or as a nice-guy running-shoe entrepreneur in The Big Chill. Eager for acceptance as a classical performer, he has performed Richard III and Henry V for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Last week Kline returned to Papp's Public Theater off Broadway and took on the ultimate challenge: Hamlet...