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...first evening in Jamestown, before giving in to Applebee's, I had asked Ryan, the clerk at my Holiday Inn Express, if any there were any local restaurants nearby...
...rent neighborhood of Tehran Pars, patrons at a café talk of how to balance faith with the politics of aiding Islamic militant groups. Mehdi Sedaghat, 27, a clothing-store clerk, speaks between bites of his bologna sandwich. "It's our religious duty to aid Muslims who are being killed," says Sedaghat, whose car bears a sticker on the rear window that reads INSURED BY IMAM REZA (Shi'ite Islam's revered figure). "But reality is reality, and we can't afford it." He quotes a Persian proverb: "If the lantern is needed at home, donating it to the mosque...
...Mumbaikers share his gloom. Within a day, the city was almost back to normal. The train tracks were cleared, the victims cremated or buried. Commuters jammed station platforms once more. "It was a terrible thing, of course," says Mangesh Tandel, a clerk who had narrowly missed boarding one of the doomed trains, "but life goes on. We are all working class in Bombay, and for us the most important thing is work. There are no communal problems on a train." Look at the rescue efforts, says Tandel, or at the long lines of people who waited outside hospitals to donate...
...never interrogated. "No one even asked me anything about our troops. I couldn't answer anyway." Jessi said all she could have told them was that she was a clerk, in charge of pencils, packs and toilet paper...
...accused of engaging in a complicated scheme to ensure that politically connected job applicants received favorable treatment in city hiring and promotions. The federal investigation, led by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (the same one overseeing the Valerie Plame CIA leak case in Washington) has already led the city clerk to resign in disgrace and to 35 public corruption convictions...