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Noor has been variously criticized for being an outsider, a jet-setter or a Western woman crusading in a conservative culture. Yet she is deeply rooted in Jordan, where her bearing through the King's illness and death won millions of hearts. She knows the torch has passed to her stepson King Abdullah and her own eldest son Crown Prince Hamzah, 18, who is studying at Sandhurst and bears a striking resemblance to his late father. Abdullah's wife Rania, 28, is expected to be named queen soon, but that shouldn't be a problem: Noor shared the title with...
...tower burned Sept. 6, 1956, ironically in a restoration effort, when the acetylene torch of a worker set the structure ablaze. Its restoration will begin in June and conclude within a period of one to two years...
...while America has rolled around in dance clubs and hip-hop has taken the political torch, folk music has somehow maintained a high energy, doubtless made possible by clubs like Passim. Siggins Schmidt explains that the club is "one of the best places an artist can cut his or her own teeth...can find an attentive audience. Its nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman...
...People see me as carrying the torch for Jews in boxing," he said. A native of Malden, Mass., Rosenblatt turned to boxing in 1992, after a successful but financially unfulfilling career in kickboxing...
...guilt without convicting him of impeachable offenses. The two leaders talked on the phone. They passed notes. And on Thursday morning they met for 90 minutes in Daschle's conference room. Along the way, they held off the more zealous members of their parties--the ones who wanted to torch the negotiations and break open the gun closets. Late Thursday, Lott called Daschle's cell phone in the middle of a closed-door Democratic caucus to tell him there would be no deal. The rules for going forward would be Republican rules, including one Democrats had strongly resisted, which left...