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...from family, the mother tongue and the mountains, orchards and idyllic lakes. "The militancy turned out to be a blessing for me," says Khalid. "If there had been no violence, I would have studied at home and joined the family business." Khalid's family has a substantial textile and carpet business. They could afford to buy their son freedom...
...peril. Secondly, the educational system had been cast to the dogs." Omar went to Kolhapur and earned an engineering degree and then came home to Srinagar, but has failed to find work. (Virtually the only employers in Kashmir are the state government, the despised police force and the carpet weavers and handicraft factories.) Omar is wondering whether to leave home again?the U.S.? the Middle East??and his mother Hafiza is encouraging him, still frightened at tales of revenge killings and boys being tossed into Indian jails. "Kashmir is still not a place worth living," she says, "particularly for boys...
While Britain’s BBC and France’s Le Monde were running stories on the massacre, the U.S. media dusted reports about Jenin under the carpet. Some U.S. publications responded to news of a massacre by momentarily cooling their anti-Palestinian rhetoric. For a brief time, the New York Times’ good cop/bad cop duo of Thomas Friedman and William Safire relented in their onslaught against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. Safire took a break from the Middle East and wrote on cosmetic surgery, while Friedman urged his readers to watch the Golf Channel instead...
...staggering growth, with unit shipments of home and business hardware climbing 319% in 2001, according to the research firm In-Stat/MDR. More than 19 million Americans are expected to use Wi-Fi by 2006. That growth, real and projected, has moved techies to imagine a magic, seamless, nationwide carpet of high-speed wireless access, available to all and as ubiquitous...
...something was amiss. The party seemed more crowded than cool. Kidman walked the red carpet, lingered on the fringes, then told friends she just wanted to go home and take a bath. And there was the final sketch of the evening. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and DreamWorks co-owner Jeffrey Katzenberg, both players in this year's especially combative Oscar race, took the stage in gladiator uniforms for a mock therapy session that hit a little too close to home. "You fat f___!" exclaimed Katzenberg at one point, echoing a sentiment not uncommon in Hollywood but usually muttered behind...