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...offices of the National States Rights Party, a Klan-associated group. Farley bought a mini Confederate flag for 40¢, and they heard reports of retaliatory rock throwing by angry black youths. A white teenager, Dennis Robertson, while returning from his job, was struck in the head with a brick hurled by a black teen; he would spend days in critical condition before recovering. Upset by the news, Farley headed out. Sims, caught up in the day's emotions, says he "went along for the ride" on Farley's motorbike...
Cell Phones Motorola's Martin Cooper made the first cellular call in April 1973 on a 28-oz. untethered telephone later dubbed the brick, right. Handsets slimmed down, networks proliferated (and went digital), and subscribers multiplied, producing legions of distracted drivers and rude restaurant companions...
...night, a voluntary curfew envelops Kathmandu as its ancient alleyways and smoothed brick squares empty the moment the sun slips over the mountains. The fear is on everybody's lips: the Maoists are coming, the Maoists are coming...
...large flatbed truck did not look out of place as it approached the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad around 4:30 p.m. The compound had regular deliveries, and construction work had recently finished on a new brick fence ringing the former Canal Hotel. Fawzi Sirhan al-Hamdani, who was waiting for a friend outside the building, glimpsed the driver, a young, clean-shaven man wearing a T shirt. Another man in the compound's parking lot says the truck veered, as if looking for the right spot to stop. Then, say both men, it slammed into a corner...
...Riveting Read Re the article on the novel by Monica Ali, Brick Lane [July 14]: reviewer Aparisim Ghosh is an Asian living in Britain, which I suppose he thinks gives him excellent credentials to castigate Ali's book in no uncertain terms. Well, I am Bangladeshi; I lived in England for 10 years and worked in Brick Lane, a Bangladeshi neighborhood in London. I knew the type of people Ali wrote about very well, and I found her book riveting. It caught the truth of Brick Lane exactly and sensitively. Ali is one of Britain's best young novelists. Zeenat...