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...final exams (the only subject he found taxing was religion) and landed a place at the London School of Economics, where he studied statistics. But the middle-class trajectory of Saeed's life went off course after he volunteered for a Muslim charity in Bosnia and fell too ill to complete the trip. Within a year, Saeed dropped out of school and, after training at a camp in Afghanistan, joined the militant group Harkat ul-Ansar...
...ill-equipped Philippine military is to win the ongoing fight against terrorism on its home soil, it must be provided with state-of-the-art equipment and specialized training by the U.S. That is the primary reason American forces are being stationed here temporarily to help our soldiers defeat the dreaded Abu Sayyaf bandit group. JIM VICTA HIPOLITO Kawit, the Philippines...
...Linkin Park communicates its message very well. The band lets its fans know they are not alone in having been through tough stuff. Just because some people don't get the message or take it wrong doesn't mean that the message is not there. JODY POETTKER Flat Rock, Ill...
...When B?ll's wife Sophie?an Austrian Jew whose parents were victims of the Nazi death camps?falls ill, her dying designs for her husband's salvation lead to an eleventh-hour revelation, bringing B?ll and Amai together. B?ll looks to Amai to redeem him for what he's done, what he's made. And when Amai sees through B?ll's facade to his depressed, almost somnolent state, she recognizes a shadowy reflection of kyodatsu, "the condition of despair and exhaustion" that possessed the Japanese after the war, and begins to comprehend the price he paid for victory...
...more than a pretty face. Finley combines humility and arrogance in a way that befits someone as prominent as she. Her intimate bantering with the audience was almost too much, and one found oneself fearing that she would fly off the handle at any moment. She seemed stifled, slightly ill at ease, almost hysterical. Then she broke into the schizophrenic voice of her irrational stage alter ego, which sounds like a combination of a southern preacher, an axe murderer and a juvenile delinquent. The tension evaporated, and she did what she does best: perform...