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...British passport means very little. For a true Muslim, he says, "a British passport is no more than a travel document." Abu Yahya, 26, a Londoner and veteran of military training camps in Kashmir and Afghanistan, agrees: "Our allegiance is solely to Allah and his messenger, not to the Queen and country. Nationality...means nothing...
...would be easy - too easy - to make light of Charlotte Beers, the former big-time advertising exec recently named undersecretary of state for public affairs. The so-called "queen of branding" who helped promote Head & Shoulders shampoo and Uncle Ben's Rice has now been assigned the job of helping to boost the U.S. image in the Muslim world. So, no Uncle Ben's jokes, please...
...Each of the "acts" followed this reading-discussion pattern. After Tom Hart came James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook, who collaborate on a sci-fi/urban nightmare series called "Ground Zero." Following them Megan Kelso ("Queen of the Black Black"), resembling the dark-haired Enid from Dan Clowes' "Ghost World," read from her up-coming graphic novel "Artichoke Tales." Lastly, the headliner, Charles Burns, whose work has appeared since the early 1980s, took the stage. A master of the color black (his pages are more ink than paper) Burns specializes in creepy stories filled with disease, freaks and teenagers. Reading...
KNIGHTED. RUDY GIULIANI, 57, New York City mayor; by Queen Elizabeth. Naming the mayor a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Prince Andrew, in a visit to New York, cited his "outstanding help and support to the bereaved British families in New York" after the Sept. 11 attack. Because he is not a British citizen, he will not be called...
...invading Japanese; in Honolulu. Chang spent nearly four decades under house arrest in Taiwan (see eulogy). DIED. ANNE RIDLER, 89, fluent and gifted poet, editor and translator; in Oxford. In June, Ridler, a onetime secretary to T.S. Eliot, was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to literature. DIED. MICHELINE OSTERMEYER, 78, who won discus and shot put gold medals for France in the 1948 Olympic Games; in Rouen. Ostermeyer retired from sports in 1950 to tour Europe as a pianist and was renowned for her renditions of Rachmaninoff's work...