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When Stephen Goldsmith was 17, he won a high school oratory contest with a speech on "Why I want to be a black transsexual." It was an act of defiance. Goldsmith, who is Jewish, remembers being roughed up almost every week on the way home from school in Salt Lake City when his classmates would turn off to go to the nearby Mormon church and he would continue on straight to go home. Goldsmith, now 47, is the city planner for Salt Lake City, hired by the controversial new mayor, Rocky Anderson, to revitalize the downtown area, block strip-mall...
...changes to "pregnant"; in MATTHEW 5:9, the peacemakers, once the "sons of God," become the "children of God"; in ROMANS 3:28, "a man is justified by faith" is now "a person is justified by faith." Throughout, references to "the Jews" are made more specific, such as "the Jewish leaders." And the vocative "O" is gone...
...interview with Time, the soft-spoken 63-year-old vigorously denies any connection with a terrorist network. "I am not advocating the overthrow of any government," Abubakar says. "What I want to see is a government committed to Islam." He blames Mahathir, the U.S. and a worldwide Jewish conspiracy for his problems (see interview). "This is just a political game," he says of the charges. "Jemaah Islamiah is an invention by Mahathir to instill fear [into] the Muslim community...
...MIDDLE EAST Deadly Impasse As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with President George W. Bush in Washington, fighting continued unabated back home. A day after a Palestinian killed three people in Hamra, a Jewish settlement on the West Bank, Israel retaliated with air strikes on Palestinian Authority headquarters in Nablus. The army also launched incursions into the West Bank to hunt down suspected militants...
...mechanical and derivative section of Storytelling, Solondz digs into the familiar territory of surburban misery and dysfunction. The story centers on Toby Oxman, (Paul Giamatti), a dejected shoe salesman who plans to make a documentary film about the underbelly of suburban high school, and the Livingstons, a middle-class Jewish-American family. Oxman finds his ideal protagonist in Scooby Livingston, an apathetic, strung-out, futureless student who spends most of his time organzing his CD collection and dreaming of being Conan O’Brien’s sidekick. Oxman follows Scooby through his nonexistent college search and his banal...