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...what makes The Sopranos a great, not just entertaining, show is that the most disturbing stories are about Tony's casual, selfish, bloodless cruelties. The ruin of another person is better than a slight inconvenience to him, and no matter how many promises he breaks or lives he destroys, he always believes himself more sinned against than sinning. He has toddled through the series like an overindulged two-year-old, protected from the consequences of his actions by perverse fate, and protected from their moral consequences by his power of rationalization. After he shafts a helpless civilian in a business...
...face encounter with his female lawyer out of respect for his sensitivities as a religious Muslim - and eventually managed to arrange their first conversation. In a room barely large enough for three chairs and a small table, Al-Qahtani appeared in an orange jump-suit, his legs shackled. A slight man in his mid 30s with short black hair and a beard, he was initially preoccupied with learning how his aging father in Saudi Arabia had contacted the lawyer, and how he could be sure that she was not another interrogator simply seeking to extract more information, Gutierrez said...
...finishing 41st in the slalom. She clocked in at 53.27 and 58.82 for a combined time of 1:52.09. “My slalom was actually hysterical, because I literally fell through the finish line at the end of my second run,” Dickerson said. Despite the slight embarrassment, Dickerson finished out her four years on the team with a personal best in the giant slalom, placing 49th with a time of 2:26.64. Junior Kathleen Connors finished behind Dickerson for 47th place on a 2:02.76 time, and sophomore Jay Teng and freshmen Caroline Cochin de Billy...
...response to Rasmussen's slight, Muslim activists in Denmark embarked on a provocative campaign of their own. In mid-November, Abu Laban, the country's most radical imam, made arrangements on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Faith to send a delegation of Muslims to the Middle East to publicize the cartoon issue. They brought with them a 43-page dossier that contained the 12 cartoons and three even more inflammatory drawings, not published by Jyllands-Posten but allegedly sent to Danish Muslims in the wake of the initial protests. (One of the images, purportedly showing Muhammad with...
...sense, the cartoon uproar may have a lot less to do with religion or culture than with politics. "Arabs should have responded in a cooler way," says Mourad Gharib, 42, a journalist in Cairo. "But it's as though we're standing on a hot piece of metal. Any slight change in temperature can affect Arab society...