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Ghassan Elashi, a Palestinian, has been in the U.S. for 23 years. A father of six and a devout Muslim who runs the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, he is also a proud U.S. citizen. But lately he has stopped jogging and lives in fear that his teenage daughter--who wears a hijab, a Muslim head covering--will be attacked on the streets of their hometown, Richardson, Texas, a Dallas suburb. Managing the nation's largest Muslim charity, he says, has become a "very, very dangerous" business...
...Leningrad facility near the Gulf of Finland, sources say vodka and drugs flow freely among the workers, most of whom earn barely 3,000 rubles a month--about $100. Poorly paid, highly inebriated men make a shabby line of defense against terrorists and traffickers. Vaclav Havlik, a Czech citizen who was part of a group of uranium smugglers arrested near Munich in 1994, told TIME that obtaining material from Russia was no great chore. "It was like going for vacation by the sea and bringing back a sack of shells," he says...
...Utada says the Japanese press sometimes focuses too much on the fact that she was born in America. Explains Utada: "I'm a citizen of both countries. I was never that conscious of my nationality growing up." She remembers one incident in middle school when she was asked to declare her nationality for her entry in a school yearbook. "The yearbook staff came to ask me what I wanted to be put down as. I said, 'I don't know. Does nationality refer to what you are racially, or is it where you were born? Or where you grew...
John Walker Lindh, an American citizen who converted to Islam and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, is in deep trouble. Turned over to U.S. special forces after a failed Taliban uprising in a Northern Alliance jail, Walker may face criminal charges pending the decision of the Bush administration. But it gets worse for poor John: the father of the 20-year old mujaheedin says he wants to give his wayward son a “little kick in the butt” when he gets back. “He’s been through a horrible ordeal...
...year, however, shopping has taken on a new shroud of sanctity, for it is being touted as the best way for an American to both save and support his country. Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what more you can buy. For you, good-natured citizen, have a new patriotic duty: spend, spend, spend and bring this economy out of its present recession. Show Osama bin Laden the strength and perserverance of capitalism and the American way of life...