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...party again. At the Robin Hood Foundation, executive director David Saltzman and his board organized both the party and the cause. The Oct. 20 Concert for New York City brought together an A list of performers that ran from Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger to Melissa Etheridge. In ticket sales alone, the televised concert generated $14 million; pledges from viewers are still being calculated...
...their characters according to Western fashions and modes. Or ensconce beneath their native kimonos Freudian explanations, Marxist interpretations and existential quests. But since Western publishers are traditionally xenophobic themselves, few Japanese writers manage to negotiate the crossover. The coin of any realm?runaway domestic best sellerdom?is the surest ticket out of Japan. But occasionally literary laurels based on distinctive work over an extended career provide purchase...
...attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, along with five other Algerians. Further arrests are made in Bosnia Sept. 29, 2001 Police in Wiesbaden, Germany take Talip Tolgay and two other terrorist suspects into custody. Weapons, fake identity and credit cards and an invoice for a return air ticket to Islamabad via London are seized Oct. 1, 2001 Sulayman Balal Zain-ul-abidin (a.k.a. Frances Etim) apprehended in London. Zain-ul-Abidin was linked to Sakina Security, the company that reportedly offered Muslims combat training in Afghan camps Oct. 8, 2001 Bensayah Belkacem, suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell, arrested...
...most famous citizen showed up. So did the President. With Michael Jordan downtown making his third basketball comeback against the Knicks, President Bush choppered in to the South Bronx to toss the first ball, two days after the government issued a warning about a new round of terrorist attacks. Ticket scalpers were having an early Christmas. While Bush was heaving a floater over for a strike, fans were still lined up outside, impatiently waiting to get through an army of cops and metal detectors and into the ballparks. The South Bronx was never more secure. No so the D-Backs...
...problem with the Harvard student government allocating money that goes to benefit non-Harvard students at the expense of Harvard students who could have otherwise enjoyed it. Thus, I would suggest that for future concerts subsidized by the council, there should be a period of time during which ticket sales are restricted to Harvard students, in order to maximize the number of Harvard undergraduates who have the opportunity to benefit from the use of their own termbill money...