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...HOUR AT ABOUT 2 P.M. LAST Friday, the main attraction at Six Flags New Jersey was not the Nitro, the "tallest and fastest roller coaster in the East," or the Superman Ultimate Flight ride. Within sight of the front gate, not far from the faux Revolutionary battlements of Fort Independence, a succession of blue tarps had been stretched. Prostrated on them, facing Mecca (and, unintentionally, the Cannonball Lemonade Stand) were hundreds of men, heads to the ground in sajda, Islamic prayer's gesture of submission to Allah. As hundreds more entered the park and took note, many set up individual...
Born in 1931 or 1932, the Bronx Boys attended P.S. 80, after which most went to the Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High School and local colleges. Many entered the Army at the same time and were in basic training together at Fort Dix, N.J. "We still hug when we see each other, and I'm sure people look at us and say, 'What are those old guys doing?'" says Joe Greenberg, a retired engineer in Rockville, Md. "Joey? Howie? Georgie? What kind of names are these? We were a bunch of buddies, and as we got older, we stayed...
...countries' Olympic teams tried very hard to concentrate on the Games [Aug. 16], and with journalists, coaches and p.r. machines working in overdrive, the athletes had a lot to contend with. I'm glad they were able to focus on doing their best. Kudos to the Olympians! Dianna Werthmuller Fort Smith...
...1820s London social climber who set the bar by which such mountaineers would forever after be measured. The buzz is all about how Nair has played up Thackeray's Indian influences?he was born in Calcutta?including a Bollywood dance number and an ending shot in the Rajasthani fort town of Jodhpur. The New York Times griped about the "outlandish" sight of Witherspoon doing a "grinding Indian-flavored hoochy-cooch, worthy of Britney Spears," saying it seemed "shoehorned in from another movie." The Hollywood Reporter praised such "Indian touches" as an "intriguing, fresh approach" but complained that the film...
...countries' Olympic teams tried very hard to concentrate on the Games [Aug. 16], and with journalists, coaches and p.r. machines working in overdrive, the athletes had a lot to contend with. I'm glad they were able to focus on doing their best. Kudos to the Olympians! Dianna Werthmuller Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S. There has been much criticism of how Greece handled being host of the Summer Games. Media reports before the Games opened made the situation in Athens sound dire. But at a time when the rest of the world was just entering a civilized era, Greeks had already...