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TERRORISTS SUCCEED BY REMAINING FACELESS. THEIR very anonymity allows them to move unnoticed among and around the people they plan, for reasons of their own, to maim or murder. But terrorists also occasionally get caught, although often, alas, after they have done their worst. And then the sight of their faces only deepens the mystery of their actions...
...conquest by the ancient Israelites. The festival, which opened in September, admittedly has more to do with luring tourists than with unraveling ancient history. And it has heightened resentment among Palestinian Arabs, who insist that Jerusalem belongs to them and fear that the Israelis' passion for excavating everything in sight threatens Islamic holy sites in the city, around the country and in surrounding areas...
Notice something oddly familiar about these faces? That's right, these lucky folk have inherited eyeglasses discarded by celebrities. The stars donate their old specs to LensCrafters' Give the Gift of Sight program, which in turn gives the glasses to ED BEGLEY JR., who distributes them in remote parts of Mexico. "It's a recycling program of the highest order," says actor-environmentalist Begley, whose own vision is so bad he feared--wrongly--that no one could use his old lenses. "I had so many pairs," he says, "I was the Imelda Marcos of eyeglasses." The boy pictured with Begley...
...need a new cowboy. Our old cowboy quit./ We could sure use your help. So what do you say?'/ I thought for a minute, then I told him, 'Okay.'" Great illustrations--funny, but not cutesy--by the author, who has drawn his buckaroos without a six-gun in sight...
...Citizens of the Tower of London are at best satisfactory. Though their swinging and swaying could have been sharper and better choreographed, they looked incredibly happy doing it. The grim faced quartet of Yeomen, looking a bit ridiculous in their putty, bright red uniforms, function more as a sight gag than a meaningful musical contribution to the show...