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...mute to sing. In Kafr Qaddum, an Arab village in the hills of the West Bank not far from Nablus, the people have strewn boulders across the road to stop intrusions. They are frightened. The sun is bright, vivid. A red-green-white-and-black Palestinian flag on a makeshift pole flies from the mosque in the distance. Now one sees the young Palestinian, wrapped in a dense, irrational thunder, walking up the road. His legs move like scissors, stiffly; his body is jolted with anger. His eyes, looking inward and outward simultaneously, are sightless with rage. They...
...brought from their hotel rooms, the crowd of 700 neatly dressed middle-aged and middle-class couples were mesmerized by the tall, slender, blond woman in front of them. Dressed in a starched white Oriental tunic over gray sweat pants and sneakers, J.Z. Knight, 40, sat on a makeshift stage in a sturdy armchair surrounded by a veritable garden of lavender flowers. Her voice, almost preternaturally husky, seemed to take on a gamut of accents from European to Indian as she spouted a relentless stream of imperatives about self-reliance and the god within. "You will receive what you want...
...openings, including Harry Winston, Cartier and Giorgio Armani. Others offer 18.7% interest at the Bank of Baku. One evening, I watched a fashion show to open the new store of Escada, the German luxury label. Baku's rich sipped California Merlot, while models flown in from Moscow walked the makeshift runway. There are 300 apartment buildings currently under construction in Baku and 250 others have recently opened, says Elnur Asadov, a real estate agent who guides me around a new three-story mansion with an indoor swimming pool and sauna. "People buy apartments when the ground is broken and sell...
...campaign to drive out Sunnis. Acting on neighborhood tips, Peterson's men search suspected Mahdi Army safe houses, which often have a green ribbon hanging on the front door. Sometimes the signs are even more obvious. One house thought to be a Mahdi Army fighting position looks like a makeshift combat outpost. Barbed wire snakes across the top of the outside walls. A tree in the yard has a ladder leading to a lookout offering a wide view of the street. The windows are filled with bricks. But during a surprise search inside, Peterson's men find only a family...
...three letters are visible everywhere along the Saint-Martin canal in northeast Paris. They're on makeshift traffic signs warning "Attention, SDF." They're on sheets of paper tacked to trees, titled "SDF Manifesto." But most of all, they're inked on the sides of some 250 lightweight tents planted along the canal's frigid banks, alerting passersby, "An SDF Lives Here." SDF stands for sans domicile fixe and refers to the nation's estimated 86,000 homeless people. Though usually scattered around the city and hidden from view under bridges, in Metro stations or in parks, nearly 300 Parisian...