Word: salaam
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...rare breed." And it's not as if Nair has ignored life's rougher edges. Her early cinéma vérité work was all about outsiders, from Indian immigrants in America to strippers in Bombay, and her Oscar-nominated first feature, 1988's Salaam Bombay!, had a city street orphan for its hero. Nair enjoyed an art-house hit in 1992 with Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington. It was an exuberant, surprising interracial romance about the American South, motels and the Asian expulsion from Uganda. (Got that?) She met her second husband, Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani...
...According to Khaksar, the reason the U.S. hadn't been able to find Mullah Omar so far is that it has been relying on "liars" and tribal chieftains who were using U.S. firepower to wreak revenge on their ancient enemies. (Khaksar's brother-in-law is Mullah Salaam, one of Omar's closest advisers; indeed, Salaam may be on the run with Omar.) What does Khaksar want for his hoard of information? Safe passage for his family to a location of his choice. Not Pakistan, he says - too dangerous and too full of ex-Taliban and ISI agents who want...
...According to Khaksar, the reason the U.S. hadn't been able to find Mullah Omar so far is that it has been relying on "liars" and tribal chieftains who were using U.S. firepower to wreak revenge on their ancient enemies. (Khaksar's brother-in-law is Mullah Salaam, one of Omar's closest advisers; indeed, Salaam may be on the run with Omar.) What does Khaksar want for his hoard of information? Safe passage for his family to a location of his choice. Not Pakistan, he says - too dangerous and too full of ex-Taliban and ISI agents who want...
...attack on Sept. 11 was merely the continuation on a larger scale of what terrorists have been doing to the U.S. and its allies for years. Israelis suffer smaller-scale bombings on a nearly weekly basis, and Americans have faced similar attacks on their embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi and on a navy vessel in the port of Aden...
...giant barrels, each 12-ft. long by 4-ft. wide. The barrels had dense air pockets at each end enabling them to float and adjustable valves so that they could hang just beneath the surface of the sea. The plan, the Israelis say, was for a frogman named Salaam as-Skandari, a Palestinian trained by Hajj Bassem, to guide them to the Gaza shore. As-Skandari, along with the rest of the crew, are in Israeli detention...