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Perhaps the Saudi government will break with past habits. But even if it does, those terrorists who believe with a religious conviction that the lives of Americans and their friends are fair game will continue their unending war. These days, when Scott Schlageter leaves al-Jadawel for a spin in his car, he wears a white shirt and a red-checked Arab headdress. That way, he hopes, nobody will mistake him for an infidel. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Bruce Crumley/Casablanca, Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur, Scott Macleod/Riyadh and Tim McGirk/Tehran
...honor) looked like a garden-variety politician scrambling out of a tight spot last week, as stories gushed out of Whitehall saying Blair had once again crumbled under pressure to postpone a euro referendum, probably to 2005 or beyond. Subsequent leaks hinted the vote could be earlier - which was spin designed to keep the pro-euro campaigners Blair has been stringing along since 1997 from despairing and cutting off euro campaign funds. To hose down fevered accounts about the volcanic feud between Blair and his longtime ally/rival and euroskeptic-in-chief Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Downing...
...called the Soccer Mom Shuffle. The main step in this little jig is bending over backwards to assure those swing voters: “Hey, don’t worry, I don’t stand for anything either!” Then the two parties link arms and spin around until nobody’s sure where they used to stand. Because, in truth, most swing voters don’t really stand for anything. They are image voters. They like candidates who know how to play nice. They cast their votes the way other people buy cars...
...honest: one of the things that gives The Matrix and its spin-offs their appeal is that the characters look so damn stylish once they plug into the network. Keanu Reeves' fight scenes are the more compelling for his dramatically swirling coat, and with Carrie-Anne Moss's character Trinity looking as if she's been shrink-wrapped into her black cat suit, her punches have more pop. (If The Matrix is any guide, women in the future will need a weapons-grade workout regimen...
...joint-stock company and the world's first corporate logo. Winchester deftly evokes the sleepy rhythms of 19th century colonial life--the hotel bars, the town gossip, a runaway elephant--which go on even as volcanic tremors begin knocking plates off tables, shrouding ships in ash and making compasses spin. Winchester, a geologist by training, initiates us gently into the pleasures of plate tectonics, and he leavens his lectures with big-budget action scenes: when the big day comes, ravenous tidal waves chase the locals up cliffs and strand a hapless Dutch gunship a mile and a half inland...