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...Khalil Shanti...
...case was brewing, a similar episode was unfolding in Miami with a much different outcome. Maria Eugenia Pereira, a Puerto Rican woman who had been living in Jordan with her husband, left him last July and moved to Miami with their two-year-old son Khalil. The father, Ibrahim Shanti, divorced her in Jordan, flew to Miami and won two favorable rulings in Florida courts, giving him temporary custody of the child. The father and son returned to Jordan April 1. Islamic countries, most of which are not signatories to the Hague Convention, tend to rule for fathers in custody...
...like the true cultural icon/diva/ice queen/anathema that she is and always has been, Madonna has found--and promptly appropriated--the newest fad. It was Erotica Madonna, then Evita Madonna, then Mama Madonna, then Om Shanti Madonna, and now--gasp!--it's Geisha Madonna. Obsessed with Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha, Madonna has turned into a pop culture juggernaut. She has declared herself "Hatsumomo," the malevolent nemesis of the book's protagonist. (In a recent interview she clued us in to the disturbing fact that baby Lourdes seems to like calling her mom "Hatsumomo...
...director of the Bank of Boston. I know the bottom line," said Shanti Fry, a resident of nearby 8 Berkeley Street. "And I don't think seventeen [additional] parking spaces are going to make the hotel much more economically viable...
...appreciate the wisdom of the older feminists," Shanti M. Perkins '94 said. "But I can relate to [Walker] better because she is in my age group and closer to home...