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...recent Tuesday, Al-Shishawa is heaving with customers, chatting and eating amidst a fug of hookah smoke. "Personally I think [the government] should make an exception because it's a cultural thing," says Amram Miah, 24, a data analyst, relaxing with two friends over a watermelon-flavored pipe. "We don't drink, it's a social choice...
...shop. Soon after Hasina's speech ended, Ali's windowpanes started shaking and cracking. Outside on the avenue, Delwar Hossain, a 26-year-old seller of peanuts, heard a loud noise and thought at first that the tire of a truck must have burst. A moment later, Quddus Miah, a street-side garment vendor, saw thousands of people, many wounded and bleeding, stampeding down the road; his first instinct was to protect his wares, but then he, too, turned and ran for his life...
...everyone was so lucky: 20 people, including a bodyguard who had shielded Hasina, and a senior party leader, were killed, and more than 200 were wounded. When street vendor Miah went to retrieve his merchandise, he found the avenue strewn with the dead and wounded. "I was too stunned and numbed to help anyone," he says...
...clients to the wonders of the PC revolution will help the agency make cyberspace attractive to mass audiences--and steal a march on archrivals International Creative Management and William Morris Agency in the process. "Our artists have lots of story ideas floating around in their heads," says Hassan Miah, a former management consultant who now runs CAA's new-media program. "When they see what they can do now, they'll start applying their talents...
...there is Auden modestly on the stump, or in the pulpit, but steadily aware of the dangers of pontificating. In the title poem, he invokes his Age of Anxiety themes, then introduces a second voice to cut himself down: "What fun and games you find it to play/ Jere-miah-cum-Juvenal . . ." Suddenly yet a third voice yawns: "Go to sleep now for God's sake!/ You both will feel better by breakfast time...