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  • Osama's N.Y. Beauty (bin Laden's Spoiled Niece Wants To be A Pop Star)

    03/17/2005 12:31:27 PM PST · by MisterRepublican · 180 replies · 14,245+ views
    New York Post ^ | March 15, 2005 | Jen Kelly and Paula Froelich
    She walks down the street on the Upper East Side, thin and stylish, another well-heeled beauty chatting away on her cellphone. Except that she isn't — she's Osama bin Laden's niece. Wafah Binladin left the city in the months before her uncle's ghastly attack, but she's back now, living at a friend's posh pad off Park Avenue, pursuing her career as a pop star and living it up on the social scene at swanky Soho House. A former Columbia student who grew up in Geneva, she takes the subway around town, Elton John sheet music under her arm, trading on...
  • Movies Worth Seeing

    02/06/2004 3:39:38 AM PST · by Theodore R. · 31 replies · 401+ views
    King Features Syndicate, Inc. ^ | 02-06-04 | Reese, Charley
    Movies Worth Seeing If you haven't done so, "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" is well worth seeing, even on a DVD if you miss it in the theaters. J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy was voted in a huge survey as the greatest book of the 20th century, which naturally infuriated academic critics who seem to think that the great literature is the vomit of the authors' neuroses transferred to the printed page — the ickier, the greater. I've always believed there is one standard for any author — can he or she tell a good story? It was...