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...even if the special forces get to him, what then? This isn't a case, in the sort of language loved by military folks, in which you just cut off the head of the snake and let the body wither. "Terrorism is not bin Laden," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "He's got lieutenants waiting to succeed him." The cellular, secretive structure of al-Qaeda--small groups of operatives acting almost independently--militates against a quick, decisive strike. Says Ranstorp: "Al-Qaeda is truly a multinational enterprise; they have made it into a decentralized organization that understands the power...
...that makes him kind of like Mandela and Havel! THE CONCORDE Supersonic planes get O.K. for return to service. Never mind what the global economic meltdown has done to CEOs' travel budgets Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Slammed by animal-rights activists for plans to bring cheetahs onstage, she totes a snake instead. Like, who knew reptiles were animals? KEIKO THE WHALE Free Willy star's keepers give up on trying to free him to the ocean. Now they want him to gain 10 kg for a role in Bridget Jones's Diary 2 VICTORIA BECKHAM The singer formally known as Posh...
...performance that was too hot for prime time, too sexy for MTV, a performance that would launch her out of the world of PG-13 and into adulthood, if not adult films. Didn't happen. First off, she appeared on stage with circus- type animals - a tiger and a snake. I don't know about your fetishes, but, in my book, circuses are not erotic. I don't typically go to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey when I want to get turned on. Maybe you do. If so, I apologize. More power...
...support of a guy who calls himself "Dirty" Danny. All of the pieces mean to be humorous and Tony Millionaire provides several of the best of these. My favorite contribution of his reads like a devastating, thinly-veiled reference to Rall, about a vicious, self-pitying giant snake roaming around the desert seeking love from the things it devours. Other artists use Hellman as an actual character, taking part in silly adventures that inevitably end in some vulgarity...
...better sort of world, a book like Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations (Vintage; 285 pages) wouldn't exist. For a start, it would have been a completed book: author John Diamond, a popular Times columnist and the husband of the TV culinary goddess Nigella Lawson, died of cancer in March after writing just six chapters of an "uncomplimentary view of complementary medicine." That unfinished text - cut off, spookily, almost in midthought - is rounded out by an anthology of Diamond's newspaper columns, which show off his first-class deadline wit. (A story about being forced by his Hassidic computer repairman...