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...titillated by "Live From New York: An Uncensored History of 'Saturday Night Live'" by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (Little, Brown; October 7). "This oral history of NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' is the juiciest treasure trove of backstage gossip, sex and drugs since 'The Andy Warhol Diaries'...FORECAST: Little, Brown editor Geoff Shandler got the buzz going on this book at BookExpo in May, and a first serial in this month's issue of Vanity Fair has heightened the buzz to a roar. Ubiquitous media coverage and rave reviews should rocket this one onto bestseller lists...
...video--which goes on to record the apparent killing of two more puppies--is the most shocking footage from a cache of 62 videotapes obtained in Afghanistan by CNN correspondent Nic Robertson and viewed by TIME last week. The Afghans who supplied the tapes told Robertson the video trove was recovered from a house formerly used by senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden. If the tape of the dog dying was indeed produced by al-Qaeda, it provides the first publicly available visual evidence that the group has tested chemical agents on live subjects. John Gilbert, a former...
...Afghans who supplied the tapes told Robertson the video trove was recovered from a house formerly used by senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden. If the tape of the dog dying was indeed produced by al-Qaeda, it provides the first publicly available visual evidence that the group has tested chemical agents on live subjects. John Gilbert, a former U.N. and Pentagon chemical-weapons inspector who viewed the tapes, says the dog?s spasmodic reaction indicates that it might have been subjected to a nerve gas like sarin...
...country. If you try to help, he will hit you for processing fees and "advance loans," and you will never see a dime. In the past few months, this well-worn scam has been evolving, so watch out for new variants involving Afghan war booty or a secret trove of cash lost in the attack on the World Trade Center...
...Other scholars want the Buddha brought to light. More than anything right now, they say, Afghans need the Buddha unearthed as symbolic proof that the Taliban weren't able to eradicate all of the country's rich, pre-Islamic heritage. The country is a historian's treasure trove. Between the 3rd and 8th centuries, Afghanistan experienced a fusion of Greek, Persian and Indian cultures. The Bamiyan statues, for example, showed traces of Greek influence, as if the sculptors had stolen the robes off Apollo, the Greek sun god, to drape their enormous Buddhas. "There's a cultural void left...