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MILESTONES: Martha Stewart gets a break; Baltimore Ravens star Jamal Lewis gets arrested...
ARRESTED. JAMAL LEWIS, 25, Baltimore Ravens star running back; on federal drug charges that he tried to help a childhood friend buy cocaine in the summer of 2000, one month before he signed a $35.3 million contract with the Ravens; in Atlanta. Indicted as part of a drug-trafficking investigation, Lewis has pleaded not guilty to the charges that threaten to end his NFL career. If convicted, he could face 10 years to life in prison...
...contrast to Harvard’s system of letting students create a blocking group during their first year, Yale first-years are randomly assigned to a residential college before arriving on campus. The emphasis on community engenders a strong devotion to the residential colleges. Jamal Caesar, a 2003 graduate now working for the Yale admissions office, writes in an e-mail, “I love my residential college—Ezra Stiles is the best college on campus...
...announced the capture of two suspected al-Qaeda operatives, both Arabs, on Philippine soil. One of them, 36-year-old Jordanian Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil, was arrested on Sept. 25 in the city of Zamboanga while attempting to sell 14 properties owned by Alice Yabo, the second wife of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. Khalifa is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. He ran a number of Islamic charities in the Philippines until the country's authorities barred him from entry in 1994 on suspicion of providing funding to Islamic militants and possible involvement in a plot to blow...
...simple fact, one of economics more than politics, is that poor people want to be where rich people live. Jamal and Enayat are tracing the immigrant journey that created the Americas and is now remaking the face of Europe. In that sense, and for all its flaws and unanswered questions, In This World is the great human epic, rewritten in headlines and heartbreak...