Tuba City, Ariz. has an interesting hi story.

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Mr. HYDER AKBAR (Author, "Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story"): Hi.

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But while Lloyd Webber's hi-tech take seemed to prove the optimum format for the story, it is just one of numerous retellings, all deriving from a 1910 novel by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux.

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