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...University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding estimates the fraction of immigrants who attend mosque at a mere 10%, many American blacks, with converts' zeal, memorize verse after verse of the Koran and are extremely serious about Islamic injunctions against premarital sex, abortion and alcohol. Most also shun MTV, Hollywood films, hip-hop and dancing. Such social conservatism also translates politically: the tally of Bush votes among African-American Muslims was 25% higher than in black America as a whole. The community is thoroughly patriotic: W.D. Muhammad sometimes leads his flock in the Pledge of Allegiance before worship. And although...
...ethos, where what we have is supposed to be earned. But this campaign has been only partially successful. Indeed, so pronounced is the current trend of children of successful and famous people to follow their parents? footsteps in settings from politics and business to sports and the arts to Hollywood and the theater that we can describe it as ?the new nepotism?...In this timely work, the first book ever written about nepotism, Adam Bellow brings new dignity and broad-ranging interdisciplinary scholarship to this misunderstood and stigmatized practice...Bellow argues that nepotism comes down to the bonds between children...
...group he called “Gay Discuss” to talk about homosexual and Christian issues. He estimates that almost 50 people were attending each week, and one of them was Larry Houston. The two began meeting and e-mailing each other, even after Smith moved to Hollywood, where he manages a post-production studio that worked on Wesley Snipes’ upcoming film, Undisputed...
...surfing British royal, an Australian crocodile hunter, a punk rocker and a Hollywood starlet will take to the storied Hasty Pudding stage this February in the company’s 154th production, “Snow Place Like Home,” Hasty Pudding Theatricals announced yesterday...
...Hollywood, Fla., is an overlooked burg outshone by Miami on one side and Fort Lauderdale on the other, trying to grab some limelight with a string of sushi and blues restaurants. One such establishment is Shuckums Oyster Pub and Seafood Grill, a music showcase with the requisite life-size shark mounted on an ocean-colored wall. It was at Shuckums, on Sept. 8, that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi did some pre-mass murder tippling. Atta drank vodka and orange juice, while Al-Shehhi preferred rum and cokes, five drinks apiece. "They were wasted," the bartender recalled, and Atta...