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When describing Xinjiang, silk road clichés never grow old. China's westernmost region is a vast territory of deserts and mountains, where peaks of black sand descend toward ancient oasis towns. In many of its cities, men still haggle over livestock in dusty markets and purchase blades from blacksmiths whose families have stayed in the craft for centuries. The faces of its Uighur inhabitants, a Turkic Muslim ethnic group, tell of Xinjiang's history as a crossroads for caravans and civilizations: an astonishing array of gray, hazel and blue eyes, fringed by brown or black or even blond...
...have absorbed much of their monthly paycheck; executives parade the halls in power suits and pencil skirts. But Rotana isn't in New York or London; it's in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, a country in which women normally adhere to a strict dress code in public - a black cloak called an abaya, a headscarf and a veil, the niqab, which covers everything but their eyes...
...narrower releases, the Coen brothers' A Serious Man earned $860,000 at 82 theaters; Black Dynamite, the blaxploitation tribute that was highly praised at Sundance, could cadge only $141,000 on 70 screens; and the omnibus entry New York, I Love You, with directorial contributions by Mira Nair, Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner and Natalie Portman, took in a small-town $372,000 in 199 venues. Hopes remain high for two British romances. Bright Star, about poet John Keats' doomed love, has received $3.5 million in contributions from moony English majors; and An Education, with star-is-born Carey Mulligan, crossed...
...They were dressed in black, all black," says Inam Mansoor, 33, an ambulance driver who entered the compound to recover the wounded. "They were carrying guns and backpacks. The had commando-style scarves wrapped around their heads." Surprisingly, Mansoor says that the attackers included three women, citing the police commandos he spoke to inside the compound. Police commandos present elsewhere at the scene said the same, though the claims later appeared to be inaccurate. Still, in recent months there have been reports of groups of militant young women - some once belonging to Islamabad's Lal Masjid - traveling to Dera Ghazi...
...only 7.30 a.m., but the front door of house number 54A is already open. Outside, a short, bald man dressed in a neat, black-checked shirt and faded gray trousers stands beneath the nondescript building's huge windows, bows his head and puts it against the wall in a sign of obeisance. Arun Mukherjee, an accounts clerk in his late 40s, has been stopping here at Mother House, Mother Teresa's home in Kolkata, on his way to work every morning for decades. For him, the building is no less than a temple. "I feel very calm when I stop...