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...days following the violence at Cronulla-trouble also spilled into other parts of the city-those in Lakemba sensed a strain as the image of the suburb was again being spoiled from outside. The people of Holy Spirit College, a co-educational Catholic high school, felt they needed to show solidarity with local Muslims and promote the area. "It was a tumultuous week," recalls Holy Spirit principal Frank Malloy, speaking a year after the school canceled end-of-year beach picnics to Cronulla and its evening of Christmas carols at the school. "We wanted to say to the people...
...Girls have changed my old school; in the 1970s, when the De La Salle Brothers were in charge, it resembled a Rugby League academy with prison-like discipline. Before classes on a recent morning, every seat is taken in Holy Spirit's chapel; there isn't a boy present. Senior students have organized a prayer service for Remembrance Day, marking the 1918 armistice. Many of the girls here have a Lebanese background. The prayers are mostly about hope and peace, asking the Lord to guide world leaders, to protect from harm Australian soldiers and Iraqis and, at home, to help...
...Sitting down for a chat with four of Holy Spirit's senior students, you sense why these kids have been chosen as leaders: Mark is clever, Mounia is vivacious, Charbel is exuberant, Rebecca is contemplative. They're puzzled about the fuss others make about their local area. The Muslims who are their neighbors, are just that: people to greet, to share food with and to visit on special occasions. Charbel, from Punchbowl, hangs out with the local Muslim boys; sometimes they ask each other questions about their faiths. Those whose parents are immigrants from Lebanon have heard stories of conflict...
...Living in the same community and bearing goodwill toward one another, however, does not mean that young Christians and Muslims understand each other. "We're in the epicenter of Islam in Australia," says Holy Spirit science teacher David Gearin over a spicy lunch at a Lakemba caf?. "And I asked myself, and others, How much do we know about Islam?" Gearin, 41, has spent most of his life teaching, playing sport and growing up in the area. "It's like when you're in a group at a party. When someone new arrives, you invite them into the circle...
DIED. Robert Altman, 81, prolific, curmudgeonly, irreplaceable renegade whose movies both defined and mocked the modern American spirit; in Los Angeles. Arriving in Hollywood after copiloting B-24 bombers in World War II, the Kansas City native kicked around the industry for nearly a quarter-century before directing MASH (1970), a ribald Army comedy set in the Korean War but offering a cynical take on U.S. involvement in Vietnam. MASH set the Altman attitude and technique: sprawling frescoes with crawling cameras, dozens of characters, overlapping dialogue, and a belief that life was way too messy and complex for ordinary film...