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...were joined by relatives and by refugees from various international upheavals. Most, while thrilled at America's free speech and its economic prospects, were shocked by the materialism, secularism and free morality that they encountered. Settling into lives as doctors, engineers or grocery-store owners, they contended with malls, disco and recurrent spasms of anti-Arab and -Muslim sentiment fueled by events such as the Arab oil boycott and the first World Trade Center bombing. Many also had vivid memories of American involvement in their home nations. A sizable faction was attracted to the Islamist movement, which argued for isolation...
...Karachi, the densely packed southern port where Attiya and Aslam live, encompasses all the tensions of Pakistan. At one end of the city, well-dressed young men and women pay $20 on a Saturday night to drink and dance at an exclusive disco. At the other end, an entire neighborhood enforces prayer, bans cable TV and even smashes its television sets in Taliban-style protest. Attiya believes that such pockets of extreme piousness and intolerance will spread more widely. "In a few years, Pakistan and Afghanistan will be the same," she says. Karachi has just brought in a rabidly conservative...
...wiggle room the President gave himself was the phrase "terrorist groups with global reach." By defining the threat as those groups with global reach, he would seem to eliminate, say, the West Bank bomber who straps some dynamite to his chest and blows himself up outside an Israeli disco. Such a madman can reach Tel Aviv but not Thailand or Toledo...
...wiggle room the President gave himself was the phrase "terrorist groups with global reach." By defining the threat as those groups with global reach, he would seem to eliminate, say, the West Bank bomber who straps some dynamite to his chest and blows himself up outside an Israeli disco. Such a madman can reach Tel Aviv but not Thailand or Toledo...
...instrumentalist. "I bought a trumpet a couple of years ago, and everybody started hiding from me," he says with a cackle. Yet Dre, ne Andre Young, 36, has been producing and recording music for 20 years. He started as a DJ with the disco-inspired World Class Wrecking Cru, and went on to form N.W.A., help create gangsta rap, have a multiplatinum solo career, discover Snoop Dogg and Eminem, win the 2001 Grammy for Producer of the Year and infuse rap with a permanent musicality that buoyed it across the mainstream...