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...sometimes hiring students and other females just for the job. He built walls around a massage bed in the back of his shop and furnished it with towels, a low-lit lamp, and a small mirror angled just so above the bed. With fraying tassels and a lacy black shawl hanging from the ceiling, the room is more evocative of a Victorian boudoir than a therapeutic massage parlor...
...children into his Koran study classes. Sunni extremists found his message of tolerance threatening. "I was sitting with my wife and son and heard someone call out to me from the gate," recalls Razzaq. "As I walked to the door, my wife came up and put a woolen shawl on my shoulders. Next thing I knew, they fired at us through the door." Incredibly, Razzaq was untouched. But his wife Um Hussain lay dying, with 16 bullets in her body, and his son was left paralyzed from his wounds. After the shooting, the Sunni mob went to their mosque...
...gift shops. Calvin and Sharon Petersen of Mantua, Utah, bought build-it-yourself paper medieval towns (price: $6.95). Cathy Smith of Medford, Ore., bought a framed print of Nathaniel Currier's lithograph The Favorite Cat ($38). For his mother, Steven Prince, a Los Angeles businessman, selected a shawl imprinted with the tree of life ($25). Says Prince: "Museums sell items of quality. They bring art to the people...
...embalm the remains of patients. In Los Angeles, a funeral parlor was asked to handle the body of three-year-old Sammy Kushnick, who had died from AIDS contracted through a blood transfusion. Until a rabbi intervened, they refused to dress the boy in the clothes and prayer shawl his parents had selected for his burial...
...Force jet touched down at Andrews right on time, at 8:40 a.m. When Diana and Charles stepped out of the plane into sparkling sunshine, the crowd of 4,000 royalty oglers let out a deferentially reserved hurrah. Diana, dressed in a radiant red suit with a white shawl collar and wearing an oversize red fez, was clearly the cynosure...