After racial hostility exploded into riots across Detroit in 1967, she uprooted her husband and five children from Taylor, Mich., moved to the city and set out to help heal it.
The organizers -- chiefly Ms. Khan; her husband, the imam of a mosque in the financial district; and a young real-estate investor born in New York -- did not hire a public-relations firm until after the hostility exploded in May.
Pope John Paul II, who has frequently asked the leaders of the Group of 8 to do more for the world's poor, today deplored the violence in Genoa, saying he felt "sadness and pain" over the "hostility" that exploded in that northern port city.
The Guardian's Ewen MacAskill reports from the debate venue: The extent of hostility between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney exploded into view on the stage at Hofstra University, the two men feet apart, pointing fingers and shouting over one another.
Throughout the Middle East, with anti-Israeli demonstrations raging, a sense was growing that the fragile peace built over the last two decades was stretched to a breaking point over exploding hostilities.
Hostility inside his coalition has exploded into open warfare, and he is trying to stave off a government collapse and early elections at a time when $56 billion in government bonds are set to come due and world markets are attentive.
In the American camp the mutual resentment between Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold finally exploded into open hostility.
Then, hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas exploded into a full-blown war that led to more than 2,000 deaths and swaths of the Gaza Strip reduced to rubble.
The pent-up hostility that Khabib Nurmagomedov bottled for six months since Conor McGregor and friends attacked his bus in Brooklyn exploded Saturday with the Russian's dominant victory in the octagon and then bedlam outside it.
