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...with sophisticated "link analysis" programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters with varying degrees of allegiance to him in almost a dozen countries. In early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making plans to "snatch" Osama from a foreign country and bring him to the U.S. for trial. But bin Laden avoided some of the nations where the U.S. was waiting to pounce--including Qatar and Kuwait...
...perfect world, a review of Kalman's collected designs would consist of some single image, possibly offensive, definitely shocking, arguably beautiful. The founder of the quintessentially '80s design firm M&Co. and the editor of Benetton's Colors magazine, Kalman has created visuals that, whether pretentious or prophetic, snatch and hold the attention. Witness his "photos" of a black Queen Elizabeth II and of Ronald Reagan with AIDS. The only downside to this provocative catalog is that little in it is new, and Kalman's work relies on surprise. But there are worse ways to spend time than...
...when Ben Coates elevated in the back of the endzone to snatch Bledsoe's one-yard touchdown toss, my attitude was bemused at best. Typical, I reasoned. Hardluck Boston fans get another week of falsely inflated hopes before the ultimate demise...
...passengers on H.M.S. Java when the U.S.S. Constitution, now a tourist attraction in Boston Harbor, defeats the British ship off Brazil in his sixth novel, The Fortune of War) and retold in language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there!"). In the new novel Napoleon has just escaped from Elba, and the two heroes must block a huge shipment of Algerian gold intended to pay the Emperor's Muslim mercenaries...
...center of the free petting zoo resides Topsfield's tallest inhabitant: "Dickie" the giraffe. Towering over amazed onlookers, Dickie lowers his regal head only to snatch the occasional apple from the hand of a delighted child. Confined to his cozy cage, Dickie is "well-treated and happy in his environment...