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That morning Mehdi ran into his 21-year-old son Mohammed, who works as a driver shuttling bank employees to and from work. His son had been stopped in traffic at a checkpoint on the way to the airport, with six people stuffed in his car. Having a VIP pass that allows him to proceed through checkpoints without waiting in the usual lines, Mehdi volunteered to take a couple of female passengers off his son's hands. Maha Adnan Youssef, 31, and Suroor Shahid Ahmed, 32, decided to switch cars...
...show, which ran from 1993 to 2002, and for its first five seasons or so artfully explored all crevasses of paranormal fiction - psy-fi - could have had Bush and Hoover as its patron saints, its Janus heads. They expressed the show's continuing, contradictory catchphrases: "I Want to Believe" and "Trust No One." Each Sunday night at nine, the series would juggle the concepts of blind faith (the need to find meaning and pattern in the random events of the universe) and paranoia (which, as any neurotic would tell you, is just common sense accompanied by theremin music...
...intimidate the magazine ''because it couldn't do so using the law.'' No jury has ever found Playboy to be legally obscene under the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court, although individual issues of its rival Penthouse have been ruled obscene. Meanwhile, in Maine, the drive against pornography ran into a political roadblock. Conservative activists had proposed a referendum that would have made the selling or promotion of obscene material a criminal offense. In the highly charged debate that raged throughout the state before voting last Tuesday, supporters of the proposal argued that pornography was leading to rape and child...
...week he was lambasted for reshuffling the White House speechwriting department, easing out two of the top wordsmiths, in order to make it more to his pragmatic leanings than to those of the resident ideologues like Patrick Buchanan. Many in Congress speak wistfully of the days when James Baker ran the White House and there was a lot more cajoling and stroking. But Regan appears on his way to becoming another of those people in this Administration whose political obituaries were premature. Regan, perhaps the second most powerful man in the Government, will probably go the distance with the President...
...President stepped forward before 300 million TV viewers around the globe to open the quadrennial soccer tournament three weeks ago, his speech was drowned out by an almost unprecedented chorus of boos. A few days later, Mexico City's huge Aztec Stadium, unfilled even during a major game, ran out of water. At one point its official clock broke down; at another, the sound system went dead just before the playing of the Mexican national anthem. Even the host nation's 2-1 victory over Belgium in its opening match ended in chaos as tens of thousands of celebrators rampaged...