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...from Harvard students to put aside political mindedness on account of preparing for final exams. Hundreds of students in the College have recently found time to take up a new cause: protesting the placement of final examinations on Jan. 20, the day of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration...
...congenial and unabashed insertion of a viewpoint, is what makes the Indian media’s warmongering ways so risky. The ideal of true journalistic objectivity, fact firmly squared off from value judgments, may be just that—idealistic. But newspaper readers in India and elsewhere deserve an account of the attacks that hasn’t already settled on Pakistan’s complicit “intransigence.” Anything more opinionated should be left to the editorialists.These considerations aren’t just nitpicking. In the immediate wake of the attacks in Mumbai, the first...
...foam is a sensible way to earn a living. The second question is tougher. But apart from Alex Garland's classic novel The Beach, the books I see most tourists reading in Thailand are the his-and-hers prison memoirs The Damage Done (convicted Australian heroin trafficker Warren Fellows' account of life in Bang Kwang Central Prison) and Forget You Had A Daughter (by British smuggler Sandra Gregory). Wherever you go in the country, you find foreigners sipping cocktails on beautiful white-sand beaches and reading about how horrible the place...
...According to a front-cover quote from David McMillan, the author of Escape - another Klong Prem memoir, released in 2007 by the same publisher - Botts "opens his real-life experiences like a knife opening a cadaver." In fact, Botts' account is unharrowing. His description of a prison shack in what he calls "the garden," a flyblown island of mud and compacted human waste where the cons passed their days, reminded me of a scuzzy bungalow I once stayed in on Koh Samui...
...Larry Leif, 58, a successful sporting goods and toy company entrepreneur in Delray Beach, Fla., his retirement is more than on hold, it's completely disconnected. Leif, who has been planning his golden years since the age of 19, lost his entire $8 million retirement account with Madoff. Now it's nothing more than a series of phony statements he thumbs through while shaking his head...