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TORONTO An Ontario official last week admitted that authorities discovered an al-Qaeda sleeper cell, thought to have been based around Toronto, some months ago. Its members have since left Ontario. Nabil al-Marabh, arrested in Chicago after Sept. 11, lived in Toronto, on and off, for six years...
...million worldwide. More than a sleeper blockbuster, it was a blazingly original collage of martial arts, Oscar-winning special effects and high-toned philosophy borrowed from sources as diverse as Plato, the Bible and Snow White. Since Larry and Andy Wachowski, the fraternal directing duo, had always envisioned The Matrix as part one of a trilogy, Warner Bros. quickly put not one but two more Matrix films into production. "The first movie was like The Hobbit for The Lord of the Rings," says producer Joel Silver. "It's the setup to the big story...
...reading period approaches and the temptation to spurn a snuggly dormitory bed for a wooden chair and cubicle overwhelms the rational need for a good night’s sleep, fear not. Even the soundest sleeper, undisturbed by the closing bells and friendly nudges, can sneak out of an unlocked door remaining anonymous—provided you can get away before the cops responding to the alarms get to Lamont...
Perhaps the most watchably divisive "character" is Wilson, the show's Richard Hatch figure: confident and sometimes bitchy, he pursues his high-concept visions (he once designed a bedroom like a Pullman sleeper) even if he has to make somebody cry. The most notorious moment in Spaces history came when he redid a living room for a Seattle couple who asked that he not alter the wife's beloved brick fireplace. It was like waving a maroon, dark green and oatmeal flag in front of a bull. "'Don't paint the fireplace!'" he recalls. "Fine. I won't paint...
...fingerprint project, the most ambitious ever undertaken by the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence community, grows out of the U.S. effort to locate and neutralize the 10,000 or so men who went through Al-Qaeda terror camps and are now dispersed in sleeper cells around the world. U.S. counter-terrorism investigators, sifting through interviews with detainees in Guantanamo and documents seized in Afghanistan and Pakistan, place top priority on pinning down the true names and nationalities of these Al-Qaeda operatives. Once that's been accomplished, U.S. agencies canvass security services where the terrorists resided for fingerprints. Mugshots...