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...meantime, Pakistani tribesmen near the border have all the tools to help an al-Qaeda fugitive. In Miramshah, not far from what is said to be the U.S. commandos' new base, locals are offering a complete fashion makeover: for $100 a fugitive gets his beard shaved and a new set of clothes, plus help in slipping through checkpoints on the roads to major Pakistani cities. "These al-Qaeda are willing to pay a lot - and in dollars," a tribal shopkeeper marveled. The U.S. is offering dollars too - $25 million for bin Laden's capture. But while...
...interpret a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Lucie Markvartova's "Switch On-Off" builds a story out of all the buttons a finger must push throughout the day. Many pieces are like Wostok and Grabowski's fantastical "Daddy Where Are You," about a little girl who follows Daddy's beard through all manner of obstacles only to find him as a TV image. Either through edgy graphics or strange, dreamy story lines, nearly all the pieces defy conventional, Western comix storytelling and styles...
...culinary books to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard. But I picked out what I really needed, mostly reference works like the Larousse Gastronomique and specialty volumes such as those on Russian and Moroccan cooking. I kept only those I considered serious source materials by able, trustworthy people like Jim Beard--I was very fond of him--Marcella Hazan and Lydia Bastianich. Then, of course, I kept all my own books and those by my French colleague Simone Beck, who died in 1987. They made me think of her and some of our wonderful meals together--like one Christmas dinner...
...weeks ago, I earned my first-ever speeding ticket. It was an educational experience: I learned, for instance, that police officers often prowl Massachusetts highways in unmarked Ford Expeditions; that batting your eyes and acting apologetic will succeed only if you happen to be female (my beard didn’t help, obviously); and that this fair state charges $50 for the first ten miles over the speed limit, $10 for every mile thereafter, and then tacks on a $25 surcharge for the “head injury trust fund.” Thus, my ticket (handed...
...often minorities in their homelands, with allegiances torn and their faith openly challenged as rarely before. This is a chance to be literally surrounded by religious kin. They may ask you a question in a language you don't understand. But it's not going to be about your beard, your scarf, what the hell's up with "you people." For perhaps the first time in many pilgrims' lives, they are surrounded by only Muslims...