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...Mohammed Husayn, and he was born into a Palestinian family living in Riyadh. In his teens, he was lured into Islamic extremism through the Palestinian cause. At 18, he surfaced in Gaza as a member of the Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s, he moved to Afghanistan, where his zeal and efficiency earned him a place in al-Qaeda's inner circle. Fastidious by nature, he was more a logistician than a fighter. Bin Laden trusted him enough to put him in charge of transit houses in Peshawar, the Pakistani border town. He became a kind of admissions officer, deciding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Raid | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...just partisan zeal that sold tickets. Vice President Dick Cheney and his energy task force had been rewriting the industry's rules--and his proposals were unveiled just five days before the dinner. Three G.O.P. fund raisers told TIME that the R.N.C. consciously targeted the energy sector. "Whoever has the hot issue is going to be the most responsive," one money man says. "Energy was the talk of the town." R.N.C. deputy chairman Jack Oliver denies targeting any group, and Cheney's spokesman denies any link between access and contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fund Raising: How Bush Plays the Game | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...just partisan zeal that sold tickets. Vice President Dick Cheney and his energy task force had been rewriting the industry's rules-and his proposals were unveiled just five days before the dinner. Three G.O.P. fund raisers told TIME that the R.N.C. consciously targeted the energy sector. "Whoever has the hot issue is going to be the most responsive," one money man says. "Energy was the talk of the town." R.N.C. deputy chairman Jack Oliver denies targeting any group, and Cheney's spokesman denies any link between access and contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fund Raising: How Bush Plays the Game | 3/24/2002 | See Source »

...love scene she felt her character, and Stahl's, needed. That was O.K. with Field, who found her very low-maintenance: "She cares, and not in a fanciful way. It's very practical." Says Tomei: "All you have going for it is the passion, the belief in it, the zeal to be there every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Appeal of Her Zeal | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...Zeal may be a quality some viewers will need in order to enjoy Bedroom. Once the lovers disappear, it settles into a film of silent accusations and deflected anguish. But that watchful waiting has a curiously instructive, ultimately hypnotic effect; this, one thinks, is really the way middle-class America hides its hurts. And those silences render more powerful the explosive confrontation between the grieving parents, in which a lifetime's evasions are blown away. They also make the movie's violent conclusion all the more startling, yet utterly right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Appeal of Her Zeal | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

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