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...exciting enough when it happens to your own car; when it happens to the world, it makes you downright giddy. Baghdad April 21, 2003 Ali [Ismail Abbas] recounted how one night, just after midnight, a missile dropped from the sky onto the home where he and his mother, stepfather, brother and six sisters were sleeping. "The house collapsed," he says. "My mother was dead, my stepfather was dead, my brother, dead. My mother was pregnant." Ali believes some of his sisters may have escaped. As a result of his burns, Ali is suffering from septicemia, which is spreading toxic bacteria...
...pleasant,” Pian says “it’s wonderful to have him. He gives Harvard Square a special color...and his playing definitely takes courage.” FIDDLER IN THE SQUAREIn 1996, Zhou immigrated to the United States to join his mother and uncle, who were already living in the Boston area. Zhou soon started work at a Chinese restaurant, washing dishes, cutting up vegetables, and unloading trucks. With limited English, this was his only employment option, Zhou says.After work, Zhou would practice the jinghu in his apartment, just as he had done...
...crack that story young man.RR: So you used to work in i-banking—any advice for Harvard students currently doing recruiting?PM: Go into investment banking and then leave it all to be a comedian who needs the love and security of others because his mother didn’t hug him enough. And always wear a condom when swimming. You never know. RR: They actually give out condoms for free here. PM: Is that because you’re there and you’re such a stud? RR: Absolutely. PM: Are pregnancies down because...
...connection leads them to momentarily kiss, lighting a match to a flame neither can put out. Meanwhile, the town community is up in arms over a convicted pedophile (played by Jackie Earle Haley) who was just released from prison and who has taken up residence with his mother. At first, this subplot seems curious, but co-writers Field and Tom Perrotta—who also wrote the novel on which the movie is based—tie it all together. The film grips as it closely examines the state of our American suburban culture from the inside...
...Moussaoui's mother, A?cha el-Wafi, 59, is giving the full story behind that private agony. Set for publication Oct. 20, her book My Lost Son is as much her own story as it is Moussaoui's. It tells the tale of an unhappy 14-year-old forced into marriage in Morocco; of the sociopathic husband who brought her to France and then brutalized her and the children until they fled for their lives; and of el-Wafi's efforts to embrace the opportunities offered in France to create a stable, promising life for her kids. In short, it follows...