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...action in it," Rushdie says of his book, "almost too much. The main problem was how to condense it to three hours. To tell it complete, we'd really need about 15!" The book spans three generations and includes hundreds of characters. The hero, Saleem Sinai, narrates the connected stories of himself and his family and, along the way, the turbulent political history of India between 1915 and 1979. Rushdie had originally written a five-hour screenplay for a bbc mini-series. But his own personal story intruded. In 1989, Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him after...
...Ballin at other music courses. "Now when I see her again I think 'Here is my friend,' not 'Here is the Israeli person.'" Ballin says she feels the same way, while admitting that she finds it hard to hear others criticizing her country, "even though I do this myself." Saleem Abboud, 25, is a Palestinian Israeli who was discovered by Edward Said playing piano in Nazareth. Now based in Berlin, he has attended all four West-Eastern Divan gatherings, the first held in the German city of Weimar in 1999. "The way we talk to each other is as important...
Authorities may never know the identity of the victim?believed to have been no more than 21 years old when she died?or of her enterprising murderer (or team of killers) who went to enormous trouble to duplicate mummification techniques and the ancient cuneiform writing. Saleem ul Haq, director of Karachi's archaeology department, is convinced the perpetrator of the fraud is "definitely someone who has links to archaeology." But as good as his attention to detail may have been, it wasn't good enough. The first clue: South Asia's ancient civilizations had no tradition of mummification. Also...
...array of talent spanned prose, poetry andsong, as well as dance and freestyle rap. Theaudience leapt to its feet several times, cheeringacts such as Saleem Washington, Chiqui Matthewsand B-side, and the third-annual FreshmanSteppers, the finale act of the "Experience...
Tomorrow's festivities begin at the Institute of Politics with a guest panel of artists and scholars--including Appiah, Marsalis, Sanchez, Conrad Muhammad, Lucious Outlaw, Kay George Roberts, Alonzo Adams and Saleem Washington...