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...emergency room. She counted three stitches where doctors had sewn up the hole where the bullet had entered. There was blood all over. Someone had perfumed the boy's body, but she believed his sweet smell was, she later said, "a sign of Abdullah's acceptance by Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, who applies the scent of paradise." Recalling that Abdullah had still been fasting when he died, she says, "He broke his fast with Allah." The boy's family filed a suit against the Palestinian police, but Franji has no hope of justice in Arafat's corrupt legal...
...Seattle television reporter who has it all. She’s beautiful, her fianceé plays baseball in the big leagues, and now she finally has a shot at a big-time network job that could make her famous. However, that world is turned upside down when she interviews Prophet Jack (Tony Shalhoub), a homeless man who shouts messages from God while standing on a crate in the street each day. All she wants from him is a weather forecast and a Seahawks game score: what she gets is a death sentence: he tells her she will die the following...
...rescue a struggling Internet company that many critics had already written off. He did that and more, using his marketing wizardry to turn America Online into a new media powerhouse, big enough to eventually swallow an old media standard bearer called Time Warner. He became a self-designated prophet of 21st century success: AOL was going to rocket Time Warner into a brave new world, delivering music, movies and you name it, anywhere, anytime--and of course make a killing in the process...
...Don’t call me a prophet, because I’m not,” Mazzoleni says. “But if you get to the championship game, anything can happen. That’s how you get in the tournament...
...bleak road map of missteps to the Islamic world of today, impoverished in almost everything but terrorism and despotism. And while Lewis never poses it directly, he leaves readers to ponder an explosive question: whether a religion rooted in the belief that all truth was revealed to its prophet can ever successfully embrace change...