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...cake to a wedding breakfast," she writes in the introduction. "But Feast is not just about big-deal special occasions: it's about the way we use food to celebrate life." It is indeed; Lawson offers menus for holidays and rites of passage big and small, including Christmas, Thanksgiving, Eid, Hanukkah, Passover and Easter. The most fun is a Valentine's Day repast with options for a meal at the table...
...adviser to the Elysée in the hostage crisis. "Alliances are made and cut over night. It's total chaos." Will the rapprochement between France's Muslims and the rest of society last? Some say that the government should reward the country's Muslims by making Eid al-Adha, the festival marking the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, a school holiday. And it could be difficult for Islamic leaders to reverse last week's acceptance of the head-scarf ban once the hostage crisis has passed. As the school year begins, both sides still have...
Bullets vs. Ballots AFGHANISTAN The last bunch arrives late in the afternoon, a group of women who have come to Kabul's Eid Mosque to register to vote in Afghanistan's first presidential election, on Oct. 9. One by one they lift their burqas to be photographed, revealing faces young and old. The turnout is encouraging - 90% of an estimated 10 million eligible voters have so far registered. And the very fact that elections can take place in this war-ravaged country is a good sign. But a growing split between the country's restive warlords and the administration...
...fighters from the Iranon tribe and named several MILF contacts who he claimed provide financial and other support to JI. For its part, the MILF has long maintained that it has no knowledge of or contact with foreign terrorist organizations. "We have nothing to do with the JI," says Eid Kabalu, MILF spokesman...
...more or less evaporated," contends Saudi journalist Tariq Alhomayed. But the rotten public-relations fallout is not likely to alter al-Qaeda's plans. Saudi officials are preparing for the worst as 2 million of the faithful converge next week on the holy city of Mecca to celebrate the Eid ul-Fitr feast. Saudi officials say they dispatched 4,700 extra security forces there last week after foiling a plot that included plans to set off car bombs next to the Grand Mosque. Such attacks aim to undermine the authority of the Saudi royal family, whose legitimacy derives from...