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...Durrani. She was the sixth wife of the Lion of the Punjab. She helped raise Bilal Khar, Fakhra's husband, and, at age 36, the younger Khar still refers to her as "Mummy." Durrani detailed her life with the Khars in a 1991 autobiography called My Feudal Lord, and it is a hair-raising tale. The elder Khar beat Durrani, kidnapped their children, had a rip-roaring affair with her youngest sister and once forced Durrani to strip naked when she disobeyed his orders. Domestic abuse is routinely swept under the carpet in Pakistan; Durrani's book...
...fragile/And she had a lot to grapple with/But basically she kept it all inside.../Dear God, it's all so tragic/And I'll never have the chance to feel the closure/That I ultimately need." Carey then soars into a passage that might be a request or a requiem: "Lord, I pray she's found some peace/And her soul's somewhere at ease...
...group. He and the remaining members reformed the band in 1987 and were in the midst of a U.S. tour. RETIRED. MICHAEL FLATLEY, 42, the flashy and temperamental Irish-American star of the original Riverdance step-dancing extravaganza, who was fired but went on to headline his hugely successful Lord of the Dance show, after announcing that last week's performance of his Feet of Flames tour would be his final live appearance; in Dallas, Texas. Flatley, whose feet are insured for $50 million, plans to devote his time to a film career...
...tale, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is about an Army officer, Captain Willard (Sheen), sent to find and "terminate with extreme prejudice" the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has "gone insane" and set himself up in Cambodia as lord of an army of Montagnard headhunters. On his long trek up the Mekong River, Willard learns that in this war, man is ever at risk of becoming the thing he hates, the unknown he fears...
...Disney and its gang - and Comcast, not to be counted out by any means - the upside of a marriage is pretty much the same: all of Lord Armstrong?s lands and a big step up on the ladder to the content-and-technology, one-stop-shopping convergence heaven everybody swears is the future of broadband...