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...Alex buys and sells autographs as his vocation. His avocations include drinking and drugging to the point of blackouts, cheating on his girlfriend and infuriating his friends, who have arranged for him to say Kaddish (the Jewish mourner's prayer) for his father, in the hope of bringing him closure and ending his self-destructive behavior. (Alex, as is typical ofSmith's melting-pot London, is half Chinese, half Jewish. We also meet black English Jews and an African-American Buddhist.) But Alex has a more pressing concern: finding Kitty Alexander, a reclusive, aging film star in New York City...
Indeed, it was a day of prayer for New Yorkers and the world...
Ceremonies and prayer services have occurred throughout the New York region all week long, including a ceremony held Monday in Battery Park to unveil 25 new names—those of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers lost during last year’s attacks—engraved on a police memorial there. There was also a candlelight vigil held in Nassau County, Long Island, on Monday night, to remember the 300 Nassau County residents who never returned home from work on Sept...
This comforting after-school scene could be happening anywhere in America, but outside the bedroom window, wild green parrots are feasting on berries in a jamun tree, and from a distance comes the scratchy voice of a muezzin revving up his loudspeaker for the afternoon prayer call. Sana and her family live in a wealthy suburb of Lahore, Pakistan, where her satellite television pulls in the standard Pakistani and American fare: MTV, Friends, syrupy Pakistani romances, a few minutes of Oprah until something better comes along. But a year ago, the images stopped being such a laugh...
...both a show of enthusiasm and a prayer. The danger to the candidate was palpable. A platoon of Indian soldiers flanked him, edgily scanning the crowd and fingering their self-loading rifles, which they wielded for his protection. Merely by running as a moderate separatist in Kashmir's state assembly elections, the dapper 52-year-old has captured wild popularity. But as the letter he received that morning threatened, Sofi would be well advised to withdraw from the contest. Otherwise, warned the letter, in the name of Allah the Almighty, the Beneficent, the Merciful, he would wind up dead...