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...convicted drug offender and Roman Catholic. "It's kind of hard to focus on your rehab when you're always watching your back." Bossard Shawn, 32, says he saw his Muslim chaplain so infrequently at his former prison that he felt adrift. Now, under the regular tutelage of local imam Zaid Malik, "I have far more knowledge of Islam and myself," says Shawn. "It's going to make a great amount of difference when I leave here in six months." Notes Lawtey senior chaplain William Wright: "You can teach a man new skills in prison, but you also have...
...Asia, for Cannes, often meant what was once called Asia Minor. Iran, with its handsomely spare dramas, folkloric but sophisticated, became the Asian nation of choice, and Abbas Kiarostami the cinematic imam. Kiarostami had two films in Cannes this year: an autobiographical documentary, 10 on Ten, and a Minimalist essay, Five, comprising five shots of a shoreline. No dialogue, no story, but, for the attentive viewer, much visual wit. One shot featured ducks waddling from left to right on the beach for a few minutes; then, suddenly, two ducks seem to change their minds and head back the other...
...short distance, in the calm of the city's central Imam Ali shrine, a senior al-Sadr aide discusses the prospects for peace with the U.S. "I frankly doubt we can come to an agreement," says Sheik Faad al-Turfi. "They came here as occupiers. They kill Iraqis, rape our women and steal our riches." With an air of exhaustion, he also dismisses the claims of al-Sadr's Shi'ite critics, like Sheik Bhafer al-Qaisi, a representative of Ayatullah Sistani's who told TIME last week that al-Sadr was purposely trying to provoke an attack...
...Setting the Record Straight CENTURY GLITCH The story about Iraqi insurgents, "New Thugs on the Block" [April 19], referred to the Shi?ite observance of Arbaeen, which we described as a "commemoration for a 1st century martyred leader." Arbaeen marks the death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, who was slain in A.D. 680. Our reference should have been to the 7th century...
...offensive could still incite popular outrage at the U.S. if al-Sadr draws U.S. forces into bloody street battles that do extensive damage to Shi'ite holy sites. On Friday a fire fight between al-Sadr's forces and U.S. tankers near Najaf's shrine of the Imam Ali left four small holes in the shrine's golden dome. Almost immediately, U.S. officials blamed al-Sadr. Says a senior Army officer: "The approach we're using has kept the majority of Shi'ites on our side...