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...Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...
...year ago, he ruled his nation, presided at the nexus of corruption, greed, vanity and perfidy that is the right of a despotic head of state. He was evicted from power?unconstitutionally he is eager to remind you?by the sort of populist movement that has become the Philippine way of disposing of such autocrats. And now, his suzerainty over even this little hospital room, these grubby pieces of furniture and ancient hospital beds, is only at the sufferance of the general in charge of Veteran's Memorial Medical Center...
...other photographer, was limited to documenting the skin of the world. But in the early- to mid- 1990s, doing a series of photographs of science labs, Wagner, 48, was struck by how much of modern science depends on images that a camera cannot capture. To keep exploring the nexus of science and art--part of her ongoing interest in the systems people use to organize and make sense of the world--she decided that "I needed access to the same tools that the scientists work with...
Even now, she admits to being at a nexus; driving her truck and taking classes, doing her homework at 4 in the morning, falling asleep in the library, staying awake behind the wheel. A severe shoulder injury at work in October has forced her to look at things with a new perspective and wonder if it’s time to concentrate all her energies on education...
...what interested me," says Ellroy. In high school Ellroy deliberately shocked others with pro-Hitler views, but he now professes great admiration for King, and argues that underneath it all, both American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand are "deeply moral books. If you show there was a nexus of racism in America which led to the death of arguably the greatest American of the 20th century, Martin Luther King, you are expositing racism on the page. And literature is the explanation of reality through incident...