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...California's Contra Costa County. "It was devastating to discover that a relationship I had publicized to the world as life-affirming and built on mutual love was actually based on deceit," she said in court papers. The revelation led her to suspect that the Jamaican she met at a resort a decade ago married her only to get his U.S. citizenship. Plummer maintains he didn't know he was gay when he moved in with...
Rattigan and Abdel-Hafiz have left Saudi Arabia, but both still work as FBI agents. Rattigan is suing the FBI, claiming that it discriminated against him on the basis of his race, religion and national origin. (He is an African American of Jamaican descent who converted to Islam in Saudi Arabia in the months after 9/11.) Rattigan at times wore Arab headgear and robes on work assignments in Saudi Arabia, as did Abdel-Hafiz, also a Muslim, which did not go down well with some FBI managers in Washington. Rattigan claims that among the ways the FBI thwarted...
...Performance of the Week Newly crowned fastest man on the planet ASAFA POWELL, 22, broke the 100-m world record in Athens last week with a 9.77-sec. race. Powell, a Jamaican, shaved one-hundredth of a second off the record, becoming only the fourth non-American since 1912 to lower the mark. Winning on the very track that dealt him a disappointing fifth-place finish in last year's Olympics makes it a doubly sweet success for Powell. Aptly, his African first name means "rising to the occasion...
...world record in the 100-m dash set by Jamaican Asafa Powell, below, beating the previous record...
...being in Montmartre when she wants to be in Manhattan. She's precious but hypnotic, too. M.I.A. Arular The child of a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel leader, Maya Arulpragasam moved to London at age 12 and discovered hip-hop. Now 28, she has produced a mini-masterpiece that merges Jamaican dancehall patois and Missy Elliott's stuttering rhythm with a political viewpoint entirely her own. She's not so eloquent in her anger as Public Enemy or so tuneful as the Clash, but it's a pretty impressive neighborhood for a debut. Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch Born in Moscow...