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Once more the baleful ghost of Diana, people's princess and petulant self-promoter, is roiling the House of Windsor. Her unlikely agent for this work is her former butler Paul Burrell, the man she called "my rock," who, as one of his last duties, dressed her after she died. His trial for stealing a stash of her goods collapsed spectacularly this month when police couldn't deliver on their claim that Burrell had been peddling them, and the Queen then provided proof of his good intentions by recalling that he told her in 1997 he would take these belongings...
...bizarre, co-dependent relationship with British media and pop culture. In return for making themselves more accessible to the public gaze, the royals hoped that their claim to deference would be extended for generations to come. Since 1969, when the BBC was graciously permitted to film the Windsors "at home" - who can ever forget their picnic on a grouse moor? - they have thought they could control the terms on which they revealed themselves, and hence shape a "modern" relationship between sovereign and people. It's been a disastrous policy, one that hit its nadir (for now) with suspicions that...
...cartoon character for the animation studio his brother Al runs. While "Waldo" becomes a national icon, Waldo sends poor Ted to the bottle and in and out of sanatoriums. Paralleling this are the lives of Al, the pragmatic, artless businessman, Lillian, Ted's love interest and Al's mistress, Windsor Newton the pioneering animator, and Nathan, Al's miserable, estranged son and the only other person who sees Waldo. Beginning in the 1910s and ending in the 1990s, "Boulevard" mixes such potboiler elements as murder, sex and betrayal with such themes as the nature of reality, the mystery of inspiration...
...within a day's drive of Detroit. The task of policing the traffic is complicated by the area's large Middle Eastern population. Some customs officials say privately that if Ahmed Ressam--the al-Qaeda explosives courier arrested in Port Angeles, Wash., in 1999--had crossed the border at Windsor-Detroit, he would probably have made it through, which means that his target, Los Angeles International Airport, would probably now be rubble...
Customs inspectors are used to seeing Arab-American and Arab-Canadian truck drivers and, Anderson says, don't single them out but rather look for anomalies in their shipping documents, route or cargo. There are unsettling signs, however, that al-Qaeda has been recruiting in the Windsor and Detroit areas. In late July, Canadian authorities handed over to the fbi a 20-year-old Canadian citizen of Kuwaiti heritage. Investigators said Mohammed Mansur (Sammy) Jabarah admitted traveling to Singapore last October to help mount an aborted plot to blow up the U.S., British, Israeli and Australian embassies there. And last...