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...always had a strong tradition of individualism - "I'm going to make it on my own" - and self-reliance, and that's one of the most special, precious things about America. But you've also had a running thread of community that Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about, and voluntary associations and organizations. And that's been just as important in creating the bonds of trust and the community infrastructure that means kids are growing up healthy and Little Leagues have coaches, and churches and synagogues and mosques, religious institutions are out in the community and not just focused inward...
...Joseph Ziegler) for her whose presence feels a little too convenient. It's nice to think of Muna having a fairy-tale ending, but after witnessing her struggle with the White Castle fry-o-lator and get sucked into the trap of selling weight loss supplements - a loose story thread that never gets cleaned up - we're more disposed to thinking there are still hard times ahead. But these are relatively small missteps in a tender portrayal of struggle - a struggle that will be recognizable to many residents of America, citizens and otherwise...
...deeds and reading the Koran. Fasters are expected to read the entire holy book within the month, and many mosques have taken to splitting it into 30 even portions recited in daily sermons. The fast lasts until sundown - or until it's too dark to "distinguish a white thread from a black thread," according to the Koran - and is broken with a small meal called an iftar which is followed by the Magrib prayer before the fasters join their families and invite the poor for a larger celebratory meal...
Morgan says "the one common thread" now expressed by Gonzalez's co-defendants, as well as their friends and family members, is a fear of being whacked themselves by figures who they believe contracted Gonzalez to organize the break-in and shooting. Making the investigation more baroque is the $20,000 that Tice, hoping to save his struggling car business, recently borrowed from people he says turned out to be "Mexican mafia" and wanted their money back more quickly, and at higher interest, than he could handle. The shadow of organized crime retribution, real or imagined, is another oft-mentioned...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration, along with the local sheriff's department and the Actors' Equity Association, is investigating nonetheless. Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez told TIME this week that the three deaths, separated as they were in time, location and job title, are unrelated. "The only common thread is the sense of loss we feel for these valued cast members and the sympathy we feel for their loved ones," Suarez says. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...