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Under the wide and starry sky,/ Dig the grave and let me lie..." You know you're on a true literary pilgrimage when your taxi driver can recite Robert Louis Stevenson's Requiem in the time it takes to wind five kilometers up the hill from Apia to the old plantation home of Vailima. It was here that the Scottish writer (1850-1894) - who blended boy's-own adventure with psychological insight and a sense of history in such tales as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Body Snatchers - came...
...course, I should have known better. “Taxi Driver” had about nine rewrites before it was completed. John Irving took 12 years to write the screenplay for the adaptation of his own book, “The Cider House Rules.” But somehow I assumed I wouldn’t face the same obstacles...
...sure, the older generation has to find ways to reach out to kids who may otherwise fall prey to extremism, as the Muslim leaders' joint statement concluded. "The youth," it said, "need understanding, not bashing." But understanding is in short supply, even within families. Khaliq Ahmed, a taxi driver in Leeds, muses: "I'm British, you know. I live here. If I had to fight, I'd fight for my country. But my son, he's 18, and you know what he did? He had the word 'Pakistan' tattooed on his hand." How can such young men be persuaded...
...matter how many call for British Islam to rid itself of the ideologists of hate, the truth remains that few yet know why some of their youngsters feel the way they do. "There's definitely something about the younger generation," says Ahmed, the Leeds taxi driver. "They feel under attack, and I don't know why." And while that sense of victimization continues, there will always be those who are prepared to understand those who commit horrible acts of violence. In Luton, where the three bombers from Leeds met up with the fourth to continue their journey to London...
...Iraq for 54 days without being charged; after his family filed a federal lawsuit alleging civil rights violations and a military review board determined that he was not an "enemy combatant"; near Baghdad. In Iraq to film a documentary about a Persian king, he was arrested when a taxi he was taking was stopped at a checkpoint and security forces found bombmaking paraphernalia inside. Kar said the items did not belong to him; the taxi driver is still being held...