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...Algiers. Weaving themes from traditional love songs with mystical Sufi texts, Guerrouabi's shortened, jazzy renditions of classical chaabi tunes played to massive crowds in Europe and the Arab world. During Algeria's turbulent 1990s, he fled into exile in Paris, but homesickness and ill health drove him to return in 2004; weakened by diabetes, he played his final concert last summer in Algiers...
...last 20 years,” said lead singer Steven Page, referring to the music industry, “the fans have come last in the chain of importance. We’re trying to flip that back around.” Later that day, as the Ladies drove by Hufstedler and her bandmate on their way to their next gig, members of the band shouted out the window: “Oh my god, it’s Plan B for the Type A’s!” —Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo...
...Harry Potter. Most the kids say the J. K. Rowling books are forbidden in their homes. But one little boys admits, quite cheerfully, that when he is staying with his divorced father, he is permitted to read them. Let us not wonder if it was religious differences that drove his father forth. Or if religious belief is one way his former wife compensates for a broken marriage. Let's instead concentrate on the enveloping power of secularism in America, the way it seeps in everywhere, no matter how many towels you stuff under the door. It is, of course...
Thomas had been charged with the assault and battery of his ex-girlfriend, also an undergraduate, after witnesses said they saw him "strangling her with one hand" before "he suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest" after the Senior Soiree this past June...
...That faith drove Perez to envision a life of service beyond war. As a teenager in Fort Washington, Md., she set up an AIDS ministry in her church. And although her faculty advisor Ender says she could have been literally anything she wanted to, she was most passionate about global-health issues. "She could have been the next Paul Farmer," says Ender. "That's the commitment, and the talent, that...