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...That's the Shaolin temple that yan Ming escaped from in 1992: pious about profits but spiritually bankrupt. While Yong Xin is bent on shellacking Shaolin into tidy anachronism, Yan Ming wants to punch up its traditions?and himself?to suit the realities of 21st century New York City. He openly eschews the usual trappings of Buddhist piety: he eats beef (which he has dubbed "American tofu"), drinks beer ("special water"), wine ("French special water") and, whenever possible, champagne ("very special French water"). He lives with his girlfriend and their 19-month-old son. He models. He acts in movies...
...scared of bombing Red Cross buildings and of starving refugees mistaking unexploded bombs for our aid packages. I’m terrified by the horrific cycle of violence we are perpetuating on foreign soil. And I am terrified of the retaliation we are provoking from people who are already bent against...
...Pakistan. Back then, bin Laden, the scion of a rich Saudi family, was helping finance Arab volunteers in the Afghan war. Al-Zawahiri was working in field hospitals treating Afghan and Arab fighters. He was also, however, already the effective head of Al Jihad, the secretive Egyptian terrorist group bent on overthrowing the government of Egypt's President, Hosni Mubarak. And al-Zawahiri was becoming further convinced that establishing Islamic rule throughout the Arab world required not just struggle against illegitimate rulers but also a worldwide jihad against infidels who support them. That meant targeting the U.S. and its interests...
...since PSLM had worked hard with public relations and to cultivate their image, it would be foolish to turn down the opportunity. However, “there’s a lot of content in YM that is objectionable to me. It’s got a schizophrenic political bent. On one page they’re exalting political protest and on the next page advocating conformity. I would hate to think that my being included in there is contributing to a culture of conformity and blind trend-following,” she explains...
...phone to inform him how she “couldn’t stop thinking about him going down on her.” However, getting to this scenario was no easy task, he says. He noticed her one month in the dead of winter, her pixie blonde hair bent over the bank’s phone lines, back in the days when she worked as a mere bank receptionist. It wasn’t until he saw her sitting at a sales representative desk in March that he honed in on this juicy target...