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Archive for August 21st, 2006

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Malaise Week 3: The Rain Check

I got nothin’ tonight. Sorry.

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Elmore Leonard Reenactor Society News Update

While I was on vacation there were some extremely interesting developments in the Seas of David terror case. One of the accused, Lyglenson Lemorin, applied for bail, saying he had gone so far as to move from Miami to Atlanta to get away from the whole plot. The US attorney maintains Lemorin moved to Miami [...]

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Scenes from the New Prague

Tennis, anyone:
The shoes of Akram Mustafa tell the story of a dividing city; the orange dust from the clay tennis courts is fading on them. One of his country’s top-ranked tennis players, Mustafa seldom plays these days. Getting to his club along the Tigris would mean crossing from his eastern neighborhood of Sadr City into [...]