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...blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands and legs bound, and was shouting, `I'm innocent; why are you taking me?' and `Show me the arrest warrant.' '' His two suitcases were left in Room 16 till dusk. Pakistani officials later announced that the bags contained bombmaking equipment, including two toy cars packed with explosives, as well as flight schedules for United and Delta airlines. Ali Mohammad, they said, was really Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, a man with a $2 million bounty on his head and the alleged mastermind of the 1993 attack on New York City's World Trade Center...
...Gerard's discarded mistress and heir to the Peverell name, will permit the sale of the Press only over her dead body--or Gerard's. James deWitt, fiction editor, may be willing to help Frances. Claudia Etienne, Gerard's sister, needs money her brother controls to satisfy the "boy toy" she wants to marry. Gabriel Dauntsey, poet and poetry editor, faces eviction from his home of thirty years if Gerard lives. Other dubious characters include Esme Carling, a rejected writer, Miss Blackett, an ill-treated secretary, and Sydney Bartrum, a desperate accountant...
...watered-down version of the budget amendment that did not include one of their favorite aspects: a requirement that any future tax increases would have to be approved by a three-fifths majority in both houses. In the Speaker's office, under an ornate chandelier and the inflatable toy Tyrannosaurus rex with an American flag in its claw, Gingrich held forth on the subject of unity. But the only way he eventually got it was by promising the freshmen an amendment of their own on the tax issue...
...button on his remote, he zipped ahead to what he said was his favorite scene -- Sharon Stone bending down to place flowers on the grave of the family she had lost to a mob bombing. He pressed "pause" and, like a gadget-crazed kid, began putting his multimillion-dollar toy through its paces. With The Specialist still on hold, he ordered a second movie, The Client, fast-forwarded to another favorite scene -- where Susan Sarandon is deciding whether or not to take Brad Renfro's case -- and pressed "pause" again...
Last year's shiny silver dollar has become this season's lump of coal. The toy craze inspired by the Steven Spielberg movie has run its course, analysts say. "It was a promotional product line and, like all of them, it had a limited lifespan...