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...imagine how a religion founded on any old nonsense could come to be." And why Dave's nonsense? "Well, I've always been intrigued by the Knowledge. But you also have this mythos around London cabbies, that they're kind of rebarbative bigots, wandering around town in a box, a small church that seats five communicants at a time." The novel's universe is typically Self-made. In the year 523 A.D. (Anno Dave, that is), on the isle of Ham, the onetime London district of Hampstead, six family clans eke out a hard, bucolic living. The Hamsters adhere...
DIED. Johnny Jenkins, 67, acrobatic, left-handed blues guitarist who as a boy jammed with a guitar he made from a cigar box and rubber bands, then went on to deeply influence Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; after a stroke; in Macon, Ga. As a gofer for the Pinetoppers, Jenkins' college-circuit ensemble, Redding drove the band to Memphis, Tenn., in 1962 to make a record for Stax Records, and during a lull sang These Arms of Mine. When the song became Redding's breakthrough hit, Jenkins, who feared flying, opted not to tour with the rising star. The flamboyant...
...house in the area surrounding Rafah, a teeming city of refugee camps of some 250,000 people. Three separate groups claimed responsibility for the abduction, including the military wing of Hamas, which Israel charged was acting on the directions of Khaled Mashaal, the Hamas supremo in Damascus (see box). Two days into the Gaza incursion, Olmert ordered Israeli forces to halt their advance to allow for a mediation push by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. On Friday, Mubarak claimed that Hamas had agreed to release Shalit, but Shalit's captors demanded the release of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, which Israel refused...
...eight. The show could well take its place in the Cirque empire: five permanent shows in Vegas, another (La Nouba) at Walt Disney World in Florida, and six tent shows, from the new Corteo to the 14-year-old Saltimbanco. These enterprises are hugely successful; their total annual box office revenue is close to the $840 million earned by all Broadway shows this season...
...Christmas - HD DVD anchored by Universal and Warner Bros, with additional movies from Paramount, with Sony, Lionsgate, Fox and Disney leading the Blu-ray lineup. Paramount and Warner have pledged to make Blu-ray discs, too, but I'll wager that the two studios' respective aces, the Star Trek box set and The Matrix Trilogy, appear in HD DVD first. Once again, tables may turn when the $600 Blu-ray-equipped PlayStation 3 launches this November, but for the moment, Samsung's Blu-ray player costs twice as much as Toshiba's HD DVD player, and just isn't twice...