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...Banna loved America. During his nearly two years in the U.S., al-Banna, a lawyer by training, made a living as a factory worker, a shuttle-bus driver and a pizza tosser. He went to the World Trade Center and the Golden Gate Bridge, grew his hair long and listened to Nirvana. He told his family back in Jordan about the honesty and kindness of Americans. "They respect anybody who is sincere," he told his father. He said he had planned to marry an American woman until her parents demanded that the wedding take place in a Christian church...
...that the rains have come and planting season is underway. A nomad preacher has set up a small school in Omar's deserted madrasah, and girls are being taught there-unthinkable when Omar ran the place. Some villagers are now embarrassed by their link to Omar. Says a driver in the bazaar, "Truth is, Omar wasn't really one of us." Abdul Azzaq, a local judge, says "We're no longer afraid of the Taliban. Maybe they can lay a mine or shoot someone, but they're not strong enough to attack." For the sake of Afghanistan's long-suffering...
...Still, most Zimbabweans abroad would rather be at home, but few seem likely to make that journey anytime soon. On his return trips from Zimbabwe, minibus driver Maseko carries a different freight: Zimbabweans headed for Johannesburg and the possibility of jobs, money and something to eat. "There is nothing to bring from Zimbabwe except those who want to leave," he says. "My country exports only people now. It breaks my heart...
...scrunched up in the middle next to a large man asking the usual questions--"Do you play professionally?"--and finally he says, "What's your name?" I say, "Yo-Yo Ma." "Not possible. I know who that is, and Yo-Yo Ma is a woman." I took out my driver's license to show him. I still don't think he believed...
...Freshman driver Nina Kouyoumdjian also snuck in a goal in the final seconds of the fourth, ending her night with three goals, a game-high...