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...Yasir Khan, 28, insisted her son had gone to Pakistan for humanitarian work. In Luton, 34 miles north of London, the parents of computer-engineering student Afzal Munir and taxi driver Aftab Manzoor, both 25, weren't aware the two had joined up. Both lived with their parents in modest suburban houses in this quiet town that is home to 22,000 Muslims...
...bear of a monster, he has the job of jumping out of bedroom closets, scaring small kids and harvesting their screams to generate power in Monstropolis. Nobody does it better. Returning to his own side of a closet door as a dozen girlish wails follow him, he says, with modest pride, "Slumber party...
...been up to lately? Writing classical music. Billy Joel's latest CD is a collection of 10 pretty solo-piano miniatures with such earnest titles as Invention in C Minor and Fantasy (Film Noir). Unlike Sir Paul McCartney's elephantine blunderings into the concert hall, these pieces are modest in scale, as well as unabashedly romantic, and pianist Richard Joo plays them as if they were spun gold. Alas, they sound like the work of a promising student so in love with Chopin and Liszt that he has yet to find his own voice. A for effort, though...
While Simmons rushed for a modest 83 yards as compared to Gratch’s 141, it was the number of times he hit pay dirt that led Cornell to victory. Simmons most pivotal play came with 6:46 left in the fourth quarter and Cornell still trailing by three, 24-21. Simmons ran 11-yards on a right pitch, and extended his hand and the football into the endzone as he was being forced out of bounds. That touchdown proved to be the difference, as Cornell hung...
...tech-investing bubble. We were all supposed to be surfing the Net on cell phones with video screens and ordering everything from airline tickets to stereo gear for delivery to our homes or offices. Instead m-commerce is growing fastest in a direction that is at once more modest and more useful to a broad range of consumers and retail businesses...