Accompanied by the author's photographs, the narrative consists of digressive accounts of random encounters around the city, which is viewed with both the curiosity of a foreigner and the intimacy of a native.
In fact, Koepfer, like the other speakers, wanted to explain that the sport isn't defined solely by the U.F.C., which is viewed with both awe and suspicion by many hard-core fans.
"We are organizing our society, a Kurdish society," said Saleh Mohammed, the leader of the Democratic Union Party, or P.Y.D., which is viewed with deep suspicion by other Kurdish groups for its ties to Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Partyy, or P.K.K.
Officials asked him to come up with a deep-fried butter item last year in honor of the 100th anniversary of the fair's giant butter cow, which is viewed with some awe, but never eaten.
Al Jazeera, which is viewed with some skepticism in this country, plans to shut down Current and start an English-language channel that will be available in more than 40 million homes.
[Page B5.] Al Qaeda fighters who have escaped appear to have blended in with Pashtuns whose tribal lands straddle the Afghan-Pakistani border and who have proved reluctant to alert the army, which is viewed with suspicion, Western and Pakistani officials said.
