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...their homes by force; dissenters, including Izzat's brother, were executed. A few days before the war, most of the Arabs who had taken up residence in Dibagan left town, but not before they demolished houses, ransacked shops on the main street and plundered every scrap of metal that would move. Izzat's Arab tenants razed his crops, stole more than 200 chickens and ran off with his life savings. Now Izzat lives with his wife and nine children in a crumbling three-room guardhouse in a parking lot in Dibagan; every day a policeman comes to tell...
...these 22-year-olds have come far since their middle school jamming days. Band members have known one another since they were twelve years old—Crowe and Hamelin actually became friends when they were four. They quickly developed a collective interest in music—mainly punk, metal, ska and classics like Bob Dylan and Tom Waits. In 2000, they formed the Stills, migrated to New York City and sent demos off to manager Adam “Bix” Berger in hopes of landing a record deal...
...iPod mini, introduced last month, is the size of a business card, comes in five brushed-metal colors, has 4 GB of song storage (enough for 1,000 songs) and works the same way its larger cousin does (a special version of which Apple agreed last month to make for HP). But even Mac fans might balk at the new digital-music player's price: $249. The cheapest regular-size iPod is a mere $50 more but boasts 11 extra gigabytes of storage. Apple's Steve Jobs, never at a loss for words, has an answer: "It costs...
...Real Taco’s decor was almost like a Chuck E. Cheese’s,” Brush said of the contemporary decoration of the previous restaurant, which featured angled slashes of color, polished metal accents and a floor of photographed grass...
What Jones wanted for Feels like Home was a shot at the life she signed up for originally. Except for an adolescent flirtation with heavy metal--"I loved Motley Crue for a period of about two years," she says--Jones grew up dreaming of being a jazz singer. (Her dedication was such that at the University of North Texas, she recalls taking just two classes outside the jazz-studies major--astronomy and sex ed--and, she says, "I may have dropped both of them.") It wasn't just jazz music that hooked her but also her imagined sense...