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...fasting, which began on Feb. 22. Mohammed Mehdi, secretary-general of the National Council on Islamic Affairs, said the sheik left New York to visit friends in Detroit. Mehdi added that Sheik Omar was exhausted by the publicity surrounding the January hearing in a federal immigration court in Newark, New Jersey, when the cleric was threatened with deportation for failing to disclose on his visa application that he had passed a bad check in Egypt. The judge has yet to rule...
...except his imagination. It hasn't helped his case, of course, that he has filled his best books (among them, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man and The Ghost Writer) with heroes who, like him, are brainy, funny, Jewish men -- usually writers -- with intense memories of Newark, New Jersey, childhoods. But Roth has argued all along, most elaborately and entertainingly in The Counterlife (1987), what ought to be -- and for some peculiar reason isn't -- a simple point: that fiction and reality are different...
...even before the answers were in as to who had planted the bomb, a new question -- whether a season of terrorism might begin in the U.S. -- had been raised. In the wake of the explosion, bomb threats forced the evacuation of the Empire State Building and Newark airport. Both threats were false, but no one was ready to dismiss the likelihood of another assault. Around the country, airports and other public facilities stepped up security. The blast was a reminder of the vulnerability of most American office buildings, shopping malls, airports and railway stations. Even the U.S. government...
When they get to talking, G-men gripe about a certain goofiness in Sessions' demeanor. Gary Penrith, former chief of the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office, remembers briefing Sessions on a major racketeering case. Suddenly, Penrith says, Sessions burst into song, chirping the lyrics of an old advertising jingle: "Brylcreem, a little dab will do ya." Penrith, who quit last year, regards his former boss with contempt. "He loses it," said Penrith...
Tracy Marrow has been relying on himself since he moved to Los Angeles to live with relatives when he was just a boy. He was born in Newark but traveled west after his parents died when he was in elementary school. Although he lived in Windsor Hills, a middle-class section of L.A., he claims he began hanging with a rough crowd. He plays up these tough-guy roots to legitimize his hard raps, although a teacher at his alma mater, Crenshaw High, remembers Marrow as a milder sort whose most serious offenses were trying to get into basketball games...