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...mysterious stranger who pulled to the side of the road one day in 1986. An older white guy, slowing his car to ask a strapping black teenager why he was running down the street. Zachery, who was 19 at the time, could think of no benign reason why this man might be interested in him, but instead of ignoring the driver and running on, he gasped out an answer. His car wouldn't start, and he was due downtown to take a test for a job with the fire department. If he was late, he'd be locked...
...Climb in, said the man. Zachery swallowed his misgivings, and away they went. They arrived at the test site with moments to spare. As Zachery bolted from the car, the man called out, with eerie conviction, "The job is yours." How did he know...
Season of Migration to the North is about one man's journey from Sudan to England and his return seven years later to find that everything and everyone, including him, has changed. To make matters worse, someone else in his village has undertaken the same voyage before him--with tragic consequences. Salih's other novels include The Wedding of Zein and the Bandarshah stories, although none of them inspired the kind of devotion that Season evokes in its readers. Like my college friend, I have over the years recommended the novel to dozens of people, who in turn have done...
...Named auxiliary bishop of St. Louis in 2001 after another priest, former Archbishop Rembert Weakland, resigned after acknowledging that the archdiocese paid a $450,000 out-of-court settlement to a man who claimed Weakland had sexually assaulted...
...Hamas moving weapons into the camp. In a different camp in southern Lebanon last month, Fatah fighters were taken by surprise when confronted by well-trained Hamas fighters. "They had a military plan, they were well-armed, they screamed "Allahu Akbar," and they were very brutal," says one Fatah man involved in that clash. And one Hamas fighter told TIME that he and others members from the group's military wing are being trained in Syria before returning to Lebanon. Fatah military officials are busy ordering weapons, ammunition and boots for their...