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...tomatoes. Skinny porters doubled over beneath burlap sacks full of vegetables shuffle through the quagmire, trying to avoid the trucks that belch blue clouds of diesel exhaust and the sacred but occasionally cantankerous cows munching on piles of trash. Women squat behind piles of vegetables they will carry to distant neighborhoods for a tiny profit. The grocery business in India is choreographed chaos, a commercial dance honed over decades, fascinating and charming in its own way but also corrupt, unhygienic and highly inefficient...
...Arafat and his colleagues, exiled in distant lands, were losing touch with the Palestinian reality. By 1987 Omar and thousands of youths like him had grown impatient waiting for their saviors and launched their own uprising against the Israelis. The spark for the intifadeh, as it became known, was a Gaza traffic accident in which an Israeli driver killed several Palestinian laborers. Revolt spread all over the Palestinian territories, including Jalazon. "We burned tires in the road and threw stones," recalls Omar's friend Ismaeen, who wears a muscle shirt and has the dark, heavy-lidded eyes of an Egyptian...
...Trapped in a theater, with the visual effects flaming all around you, and the make-up artists trying to top themselves with increasingly yucky creations, there's not much you can do except close your eyes and nostalgize the not very distant past, when Johnny Depp and friends first offered their cheeky variants on the long-dormant pirate genre. If, by some miracle you doze off-hard to do with the thunderous score continually throbbing, and the yelling and explosions respectively yammering and thundering-don't worry. Wide awake you can't follow this story...
...leave, Al-haj tells a story containing a typically Sufi rebuke to the authorities: A Sufi leader visits a distant village while he is fasting for Ramadan. When he arrives in the village, the people welcome him by offering a glass of milk. He drinks the milk, preferring to honor their hospitality rather than his own piety...
...evenly among Ticketmaster, Tickets.com and Paciolan, a ticketing software firm based in Irvine, Calif. But if the league consolidates its ticketing when these contracts expire, millions of tickets could leave the Ticketmaster stable. "It would be a dream for them to have it all under Tickets.com but probably a distant hope," says Sucharita Mulpuru, senior analyst at Forrester Research...