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...best moments in Step Across This Line , Salman Rushdie's provocatively named book of essays (Jonathan Cape; 454 pages), comes when the author is invited on stage at a U2 concert in 1993 by his friend Bono. At the time, Rushdie was in hiding from Muslim assassins after Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him for his allegedly blasphemous novel, The Satanic Verses . Bono, ever the good guy, meant the invitation as a gesture of support. To Rushdie, the moment was a revelation. He suddenly felt "what it's like to have 80,000 fans cheering...
...Cape Cod Community College
...troops and the emirate is expected to be one of the launch pads for any invasion of neighboring Iraq. SOUTH AFRICA Race War Police investigating an alleged plot by white extremists to topple the government found a cache of 26 bombs in the farming area of Keimoes in Northern Cape province. A group calling itself Warriors of the Boer Nation claimed responsibility for last month's Soweto bombings, which killed one woman. PAKISTAN Narrow Victory After some arm-twisting by military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the National Assembly chose Zafarullah Jamali as Prime Minister, the first since a 1999 military coup...
...When the Greek-owned tanker finally broke in two and sank, it took with it the livelihoods of 5,000 people who depend on small-scale fishing in the area. Spanish officials, who have banned fishing from El Ferrol and A Coruna in the north to Cape Finisterre in the south, estimated last week's damages at $42 million and climbing. Now the worry is that fierce storms still churning in the Atlantic will push the spill's other oil slicks toward the shore. "They call this the Death Coast. It couldn't be more appropriately named," says Juan Antonio...
...students who got out to Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester, on Massachusetts’s Cape Ann, saw not only the brilliant meteor shower, but also Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn...