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...Aswany acknowledges a literary debt to Mahfouz, in more ways than one. During a crisis of confidence in his 20s, he ran into Mahfouz at a hotel in Alexandria and received a three-hour pep talk from the master. Rejecting the Arab vogue for postmodernism, Al Aswany has stayed true to the Mahfouz tradition of social realism. And like Mahfouz, he has a gift for writing literary page turners that are endlessly discussed by café intellectuals while also being accessible to Egyptians who normally have more time for Al-Ahly, their favorite football team. "He is read everywhere," says...
...couldn’t recover and succumbed to Springfield, 23-30.“We came in the next game almost as if we played a different team,” Rapp said. “We let them run exactly what they wanted to run, and they ran it down our throats basically.”In the third frame, Harvard looked like it had gotten back its rhythm, as it gained an early lead and stayed ahead of the Pride through the beginning of the match. But Springfield against pulled ahead, 16-15, and then left the Crimson...
Democrats - Hillary Clinton took Tennessee, continuing her battle for several key southern states. Women voters helped her win the Democratic primary there. A majority of voters in the state's Democratic primary were white and women, and Clinton ran strongly in both demographics...
...virtual sweep of the Bible Belt, Mike Huckabee rode the support of evangelicals to victory in Tennessee on Tuesday. Huckabee had 33.9% of the vote, about 2 percentage points more than Arizona Sen. John McCain. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks show Huckabee ran strong among born-again Christians and conservatives, while McCain did best among moderates and those ranking "the right experience" and ability to win in the general election as most important...
...time she spent serving the party of General Zia ul Haq, the military leader who overthrew Bhutto's father in 1977, then hanged him two years later. Her time serving under Bhutto's arch-nemesis Sharif is also barely mentioned, nor is her failed 2002 campaign in which she ran on President Pervez Musharraf's party ticket. All her party peregrinations were forgiven in 2003, she says, when Benazir Bhutto called her back into the fold, inviting her to London where she ran the party from exile. "Benazir personally asked me to return," Hussain told the crowd. Her personal herald...