Word: meccas
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...Schwarz, the Toys ’R Us of Fifth Avenue, has been delighting bright-eyed children and memorabilia-mad collectors with its pricey playthings and nutty name for nearly 140 years. Recently, the company announced that its Mecca of New England, the FAO Schwarz at 440 Boylston St. in downtown Boston, would be closing its tiny-handprint-streaked doors for good. After spotting numerous bargain hunters stumbling through the streets of Boston with hefty FAO bags overflowing with their plunder, FM donned its riot gear to investigate the chaotic consumerism at this childhood playground. The store hummed with activity?...
...increasingly concerned that the new Turkish government is reluctant to open its bases to U.S. forces. That would complicate the military's hopes of moving quickly from there into northern Iraq. The Pentagon's working plan may also be bumped down the road by the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj, which will take place between Feb. 9 and Feb. 14. Officials say the White House may be reluctant to launch an air war over Iraq while commercial airliners are crisscrossing the neighborhood, carrying thousands of Muslims to Saudi Arabia...
...shrinking violets. "Smart people are naturally funny and clever." The Cheneys spend some nights at official events, like the Kennedy Center Honors, other nights eating off trays in the den and a surprising number of nights casually out and about. The Cheneys have even dined at the mecca of Georgetown limousine liberals, chez Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn. The Cheneys are the most social of the Bushies, asserts Quinn, which she feels accounts for the relatively friendly press coverage the Vice President gets. "It's harder to trash someone you've had pasta with the night before." Most casually...
...least partly because he was as much a politician in Arabia as the "founder" of a religion that now has more than 1 billion adherents. With frequent use of the words of Karen Armstrong, Muhammad's biographer, the film tells the story of his life--his birth in Mecca, his rise to prominence as an honest man and a successful merchant, his loving marriage to Khadija--leading up to the moment when, while he was meditating in the hills above Mecca, an angel instructed him to "recite." That was the pivot of Muhammad's life, the event that turned...
...particularly fitting home for Caodaism, a kaleidoscopic faith that combines all the major world religions and counts Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin among its saints. Since its recognition by Vietnam's communist government in 1997, Caodaism has flourished, and now tourists flock to its mecca in Tay Ninh province, about 90 kilometers northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate the signing of the Third Alliance between God and man, witnessed...