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...MCKELLEN is sitting backstage at London's Lyric Theatre, a prestigious venue that overlooks the Windmill strip club in sex-driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door...
...year ago this week, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl walked into a kidnap trap in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest and most chaotic city. After six days of captivity, he was murdered. In July, a Pakistani court convicted four men for their role in delivering Pearl to the kidnappers, who were waiting for him in a car outside Karachi's Metropole Hotel. Three were given life sentences. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 29, a smooth-talking, British-educated Islamic militant who had served jail time in India for kidnapping Western tourists, received the death sentence for acting as the master planner...
...Daniel Pearl kidnapped? And why did his captors kill him? The Wall Street Journal, which last week published an investigation into the murder of its South Asia bureau chief, quotes Saeed telling investigators that "he was falling into my trap so easily, so I thought, 'I might as well do it.'" Saeed's aim, writes the Journal, was to "strike a blow against the U.S. and embarrass Pakistan's government...
...Karim, at least, is spilling the goods, giving investigators a much clearer picture of what happened: Pearl's kidnapping was carried out by three teams, involving 12 Pakistanis and at least three Arabs. The first team, which Saeed belonged to, lured Pearl into the trap. The second team of Pakistanis abducted Pearl, guarded him and later buried him. According to Karim, the third team of Arabs called the shots. One warned Pearl's captors not to negotiate a ransom deal on the sly, and told them "Don't leave him alone...
Democrats smell a trap. A campaign against Pickering would consume the resources of liberal lobbying groups and the political capital of Democrats in the Senate. That might give Bush an easier time getting confirmation for other nominees--equally conservative but younger judges, who would probably be on the bench much longer than Pickering, 65. "We need to be careful that we don't become too hysterical about one choice," says Democratic Senator Jon Corzine. --By Douglas Waller