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...taking the Senate, he didn't say anything about not rubbing it in with one more win. Senator Mitch McConnell, the G.O.P. campaign chairman, refers to the contest as "war." He's pouring as much as $10 million into the state to help Terrell, who had been a relative unknown until Election Day, when she finished ahead of the early favorite, Representative John Cooksey. He was abandoned by the national party after describing a Muslim as wearing "a diaper on his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The I-Love-George Contest | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...behavior of the past decade, there are still those eager for a glimpse of the singer, and he apparently wanted to reciprocate by showing off his offspring. Jackson has three children: Prince Michael I, age 5, and Paris, 4, by ex-wife Debbie Rowe, and Prince Michael II (mother unknown), the infant being waved in midair, who first surfaced about six months ago and who is believed to be roughly 8 months old. After worldwide condemnation of the balcony incident, Jackson issued a statement saying he had made a "terrible mistake"; the German police said they would not file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 2, 2002 | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...very jittery Kiwi. His Lord of the Rings trilogy was considered perhaps the riskiest endeavor in motion-picture history. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's mythical sword-and-sorcery three-part novel, the movies were all filmed at once during a mammoth 15-month shoot. Jackson, a relatively unknown director who seldom stepped foot outside New Zealand and who was best known for quirky, low-budget films, was given a $270 million budget. The cost ultimately climbed to $310 million. If the first movie had tanked, then New Line (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lure Of The Rings | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...Nashiri was en route to Malaysia when he was recently nabbed in Yemen, and Yemeni national Syafullah, a senior al-Qaeda officer, is wanted for participating in the Bali bombings), which could lead to a significant escalation in violence in SE Asia and possibly to suicide attacks, hitherto almost unknown in the region. JI and al-Qaeda are also working hard to rebuild their network. When they do, they will refocus their efforts on large-scale strikes. The objective of al-Qaeda and its affiliates is to spread terrorism worldwide, and in the process spread U.S., Western and Asian counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda's Asian Web of Terror | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...taking the Senate, he didn't say anything about not rubbing it in with one more win. Senator Mitch McConnell, the G.O.P. campaign chairman, refers to the contest as "war." He's pouring as much as $10 million into the state to help Terrell, who had been a relative unknown until Election Day, when she finished ahead of the early favorite, Representative John Cooksey. He was abandoned by the national party after describing a Muslim as wearing "a diaper on his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisiana's I-Love-George Contest | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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