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...doing, Reid became a member of the fastest-growing religion in Britain. Nobody has an accurate count of the number of British Muslims-estimates range from 1.5 million to 2.5 million-but they run the gamut of all social classes. In the West End of London, rich playboys from the gulf states are staples of the clubbing scene. In rundown mill towns in the north of England, by contrast, thousands of native Pakistanis struggle in an environment where jobs are scarce, racism is rampant and arranged marriages are the norm...
...book’s controversial content. But it is important to remember that however unpleasant the word may ring in one’s ears, or however shocking it may appear on the cover of a bestselling book, it remains a crucial element in understanding the full gamut of African-American history...
...workers in the Square are all over the rampant, imaginative seduction techniques of Harvard students. Take Mark Burk, the emerald green-eyed Adonis who works at Audio Replay on Bow Street. Burk and his coworker, Andre Sadowski, an enticing blonde, have seen tactics that range across the desperation gamut during their three years working at the store: from a female Lampoon business comper offering herself for the price of an ad to two girls coming in with a porno tape stuck in their VCR. The store’s security camera catches Harvard women who regularly jog past the store?...
...distinguish the rendered atmosphere from reality. The marvels of digital animation do not detract from the “actors.” The Pixar crew can pack a truly amazing amount of emotion into the eyes and expressions of their creations—emotions that run the gamut from manic hyperactivity to bittersweet poignancy. Nor can technology save a bad story: Screenwriter Andrew Stanton has made sure that his characters trade deliciously witty back-and-forth retorts that are complemented, not dwarfed, by the technology that brings them to two-dimensional life...
...look at what happened in September, you?ll see the terrorists did brilliantly in finding and exploiting the weak spots in our counterintelligence. Those failings, unfortunately, run the gamut. I?ve been told, for example, that throughout the 1990s people on terrorist watch lists were just wandering back and forth across the Canadian border like cockroaches...