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...Salman Rushdie, whose 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” triggered the Supreme Leader of Iran to issue a fatwa against him that sentenced Rushdie to death and forced him into hiding for many years, braved the Harvard community Friday night to speak at Memorial Church for what he described as a “little black Sabbath.” Rushdie’s appearance at Memorial Church was the first event of the three-day long conference called “The New Humanism” hosted by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. Humanism...
...call reporting a fire at 21 Aberdeen Street, a three-story brick building located in the Audubon Circle neighborhood in Boston, said MacDonald, a spokesman for the BFD. Firefighters were sent out at 5:16 a.m. and arrived at the scene two minutes later, according to Firefighter Scott M. Salman. The apartment complex is actually made up of two adjoining edifices, with building 19 on one side and building 21 on the other. “The damage to the building on the 21 side was extensive. It will be several months before its residents can return...
...time, escaped, part of Australia's literary heritage was not so lucky. Gone were many of Hall's slavishly hand-written manuscripts and letters, including his lifelong correspondence with English writer Robert Graves. Fire couldn't erase Hall's favorite memories of the place, including a visit from Salman Rushdie at the height of his fatwa, but recently his family made the difficult decision to put the property on the market after 32 years. "What we couldn't face was the shell of the house without all the things that made it what it was," he explains. "If you built...
...Talal Salman, editor of Lebanon's As Safir newspaper, wrote Tuesday that this Arab backing for Siniora has increased the defiance of the Hizballah-led opposition, making "an inter-Lebanese solution to the crisis out of reach...
...Salman Rushdie booked for the week the fatwa was issued,” the owner of the Harvard Book Store, Frank Kramer, excitedly explained while pointing to a promotional poster for Rushdie’s appearance on the wall. “Borders and Waldenbooks pulled his books from their displays, but we talked to all our employees and said, ‘You don’t have to work now if you don’t want to, but we’d like to keep the books...