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...Coptic Christians, he faces a sentence of up to seven years. Ibrahim says it's worth it, to dramatize the need for democratic reforms in Egypt. "I have resigned myself to paying the price," he says, "for what I have been fighting for." Ibrahim's ordeal began with a midnight knock on his door in June 2000. It has made him a celebrated prisoner of conscience at a time of increasing pressure on the Arab world to democratize. Journalists and human-rights groups have called for the charges against him to be dropped. Ibrahim, who teaches at Cairo's American...
...night game of mah-jongg, Wang Guiyu headed on foot for her home in the polluted industrial city of Wuhan in the eastern-central province of Hubei. The 41-year-old cut through a busy night market, then turned down a long, narrow road called Jinshui Alley. It was midnight, the street was dark, and safety was on Wang's mind. Six months earlier she had stopped wearing gold jewelry whenever she had to take this walk. As Wang opened the metal gate to her new, middle-class apartment block, an attacker struck from behind, smashing her head with...
...Duan checked into a series of $5-a-night hotels in Wuhan using his mother's surname. On May 7 a young woman was stabbed to death after midnight on her way home from work. By early June three women, including Wang Guiyu, had been killed and another three survived nearly identical attacks, all within a few kilometers of one another. Then, a few hours after midnight on June 4, a waitress at a Sichuan restaurant was attacked after entering the front gate of her apartment building. She was just meters from her door, on which she had tacked...
...Israeli club scene dominated by trance music, Moshe Lahav had modest ambitions for his nostalgia singalong show. But after 20 years in the business, this pudgy, scruffy guitarist is suddenly riding a wave of sentimentality among young Israelis yearning for less complicated times. From midnight to 4 a.m. at the Yellow Submarine in Jerusalem's Talpiot industrial district, Lahav sings tunes written when Israel was a brand-new state by people who, if they are still alive, are probably in bed with their teeth on the nightstand by the time Lahav takes the stage. At 2 a.m., Lahav wraps...
...black males—one who was armed—robbed the Starbucks on Church Street around midnight...