Featured Stories - August 2006
CNN Presents In the Footsteps of Bin Laden with Peter Bergen
August 18, 2006
CNN aired a new documentary based on Peter Bergen’s best-selling book The Osama Bin Laden I Know on Wednesday, August 23rd. Bergen, the network’s terrorism analyst and also author of Holy War, Inc., is one of the world’s leading experts on Osama Bin Laden and al Queda. One of the few Western journalists to interview the world’s most wanted man, Bergen recently declared any notion that bin Laden used to work for the CIA is “simply a folk myth” and that there is not shred of evidence to support such theories. In this compelling CNN.com interview on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Bergen also updates readers on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the al Queda leader’s health, Pakistan’s controversial role in the war on terror, and the recently foiled terror plot to blow up transatlantic jetliners.
Click here to read the full CNN.com interview with Peter Bergen.
“Invincible” Movie Propels Vince Papale into the Keynote Spotlight
August 08, 2006
On August 25th, from the studio that brought you “The Rookie” and “Remember The Titans” comes INVINCIBLE, inspired by the true story of Vince Papale (played by actor Mark Wahlberg) a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true.
When Philadelphia Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil (played by Greg Kinnear) of Papale’s beloved hometown NFL team hosted an unprecedented open tryout in 1976, the public consensus was that it was a waste of time
— no one good enough to play professional football was going to be found this way. Certainly no one like Papale — a down-on-his-luck, 30 year-old, substitute teacher and part-time bartender who never even played college football. But against these odds, Papale made the team and soon found himself living every fan’s fantasy — moving from his cheap seats in the upper deck to standing on the field as a professional football player and becoming captain of his hometown team.
