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...them a proper-looking Commonwealth of Massachusetts driver's license. The agent wasn't in a rush and laughed to himself that the two brothers were such infrequent flyers they didn't know they could check in at the empty first-class counter. But the two were patient, pleasant, low key. There was really nothing to trigger alarms as the brothers and three other passengers of Arab ethnicity boarded American Airlines Flight 77 for Los Angeles...
...immolation of the infidel and self-immolation of the avenger. Not since the Nazi rallies of the 1930s has the world witnessed such celebration of blood and soil, of killing and dying. What Western TV would feature, as does Palestinian TV, a children's song with the lyric "How pleasant is the smell of martyrs...the land enriched by the blood, the blood pouring out of a fresh body...
...Stripped of their earth-shaking significance, and losing their weeklong taint of guilt, sporting events (and movies, and non-news television) once again serve as no more than pleasant diversions. That?s a pretty big deal these days, of course: Always a country of escapists, America is desperate for a chance to hide from our own thoughts for a while...
...Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Dallas, Waqar Hassan Choudhry—a Pakistani-American—was shot dead at a convenience store on Saturday night. There was no evidence of a robbery, and local detectives told Choudhry’s family they believed his killing was motivated by “revenge...
...what he asked for. But so did the guest who simply requested to be relocated. The only difference was 14 minutes of unpleasantness for everyone in the hotel lobby. "That kind of rudeness is completely unnecessary," says Terpilowski. "Yes, both guests got exactly the same treatment. But the more pleasant of the two left with his self-respect intact and didn't add to an already difficult situation...