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...tent-like structure, young women surrounded by their shopping bags smoke hookah pipes. At this most superficial of levels, the commercial complex is able to combine Islamic and Western elements without any of the problems which crease the brows of the country’s politicians. Appearing on the BBC, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, and Jack Straw, the foreign minister, anxiously stress that the attacks are condemned by the many ordinary, decent Muslims who inhabit the country. In the same vein, the London newspapers profile a young Muslim Londoner who is believed to have died in the attacks?...
Sources: Washington Post; New York Times (3); Washington Post (2); AP; BBC News...
...means." An upper-class lady hiding a dark secret. Orphaned children, greedy adults, blackmailing lawyers, a detective story, a reunion and several untimely deaths (one of them by spontaneous combustion). The sheer scope of Charles Dickens' great novel Bleak House presents a daunting task for any adapter. But the BBC version that begins next week on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre cuts brilliantly through the mists to create what may well be TV's dramatic event of the year...
...decay of marriage and depict children as noisy housewreckers. His own marriage effectively ended with a separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory. But he adds, in a line echoing the sensibility of Benefactors and his other work so aptly that...
...pages, a la My Yahoo and My MSN (and soon there will be My AOL too-see below). But Google's version manages to maintain a streamlined design, even with a busier page. You can elect to display news headlines from a few different sources (the New York Times, BBC News, Wired), plus local weather, a Quote of the Day and a snapshot of your Gmail inbox. You must register for a Google account...