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Terrorist communications, according to Francis X. Taylor, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, have reached levels "probably as high as they were last summer." Attacks continue. In April, a truck bomb--now thought to be the work of Islamic terrorists with links to al-Qaeda, the network headed by Osama bin Laden--crashed into a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, killing 19, including 14 German tourists. On May 8, an apparent suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan, pulled his car up beside a military bus loaded with French contract workers, exploded the car and killed 14. Those waiting nervously for a second...
TUNISIA Nineteen people visiting the site of North Africa's oldest synagogue died April 11 when a natural-gas truck exploded. Witnesses reported seeing the driver get out before the blast, and investigators have since found numerous potential ties to al-Qaeda, including a suspect's phone call to Germany an hour before the attack...
...from reality. Despite declaring physical prowess on a par with Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 1.64 meters tall he had to stand on a box to perform pull-ups. He spoke in a stammer unvanquished by regular practice before a mirror. Raised in a farm-dotted suburb of Fukuoka by a truck-driver dad and homemaker mom, he attended the vocational Fukuoka Manufacturing High School so sporadically that he flunked the 10th grade...
Things change. Imagine this was a year ago. A movie called "The Sum of all Fears" opens. You discount the implicit hype of the title - who could possibly sum up all the angst you are prey to in the deeper watches of the night? But you truck on out to the theater, and find yourself confronting a well-made, even occasionally witty, thriller in the "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May" vein. Once more, dear friends, on to the brink. You come away reasonably pleased with a slick Hollywood fantasy...
...that is sometimes a problem. For a time, in fact, Tommy's fascination with his toys was so strong that when they weren't around he would pretend to be the toys, transforming from a truck into a robot or morphing into a kitten. He would do this in the mall, in the school playground and even in the classroom. His teachers found this repetitive pantomime delightful but disturbing, as did his mother...