Word: merchants
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Rushdie described his book as "a rock-and-roll novel" recounting the lives of two Indian musicians whose band reaches international superstardom, as told through the eyes of their confidante Rai Merchant...
...pop/rock stars? Ergo Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt; 575 pages; $27.50), which recounts the fabulous lives and careers of the singer-composer Ormus Cama and his beloved co-vocalist Vina Apsara, as remembered by their mutual friend, the news photographer Umeed ("Rai") Merchant. His opening sentence foretells Vina's death--she was swallowed up by an earthquake in Mexico in 1989--and Rai presents himself as a narrator with a mission: "I have chosen to tell our story, hers and mine and Ormus Cama's, all of it, every last detail, and then...
...just such a business with his wife. In 1996 the couple, both avid golfers, opened Southern Appeal (www. southernappeal.com) an online store that sells such golf-related trinkets as golf-club stands and golf-bag-shaped Christmas stockings. Before they could open for business, they had to obtain a merchant account number for credit-card transactions from a local bank in Roswell, Ga., and buy specialized software to keep track of inventory on someone else's shelves. It was a lot of extra trouble, but in the end it paid off: the Pinks have more than doubled sales each year...
...agree with Johnnie Cochran that Diallo's death was yet another summary execution of an innocent black man by white racist cops. How else would you describe four members of an elite anticrime squad with a reputation for aggressiveness firing 41 shots at a skinny 22-year-old street merchant armed with nothing but a pager...
Finally a reason to leave Harvard and head toward Amherst. Wait a second? But seriously, don't miss this. Bob Dylan and Natalie Merchant are putting on a concert, and as far as any one can tell, Bob may not hang in there for that much longer. Mullins Center, Amherst...