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High Tea in Mosul follows two Englishwomen, longtime friends Pauline (a pseudonym) and Margaret (her real name), who married Iraqi students they met in England and moved in the 1970s to the ancient northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In 2003 they met the author - an Australian then covering the war for the Irish Times - shortly after coalition troops freed the city. O'Donnell's book is a brief, devastating account of how these women's lives change over three increasingly grim decades in their adopted country...
...Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens and David Souter. It's as fiery as anything turned out by conservative rabble-rouser Antonin Scalia, probably the court's best writer. She dismisses the majority's logic as "bewildering," the product of old men out of touch: "This way of thinking reflects ancient notions about women's place in the family and under the Constitution - ideas that have long since been discredited...
Rounding out the weekend rotation are junior Brad Unger and freshmen Max Perlman and Eric Eadington. Unger has not only found the consistency that he lacked in his first two seasons, but has made a case for himself as one of the best pitchers in the Ancient Eight. His 1.98 ERA is second in the league, and he has held opposing hitters to a .300 slugging percentage...
With no real holes in the rotation, and bullpen depth unseen anywhere else in the Ivies, the Crimson pitching staff has moved past its early struggles and established itself as arguably the best in the Ancient Eight. At the halfway point of the Ivy schedule, that’s bad news for the rest of the league...
...were the protests generated by real indignation, or were they just a ploy by the BJP and other nationalist parties to bolster their support? Sudhir Kakar, who has written a novel based on the Kama Sutra and one of dozens of new translations of the ancient text, says the answer is both. "The people who protest want the masses to be offended by [the kiss]," says Kakar, a psychoanalyst and a former senior fellow at the Center for Study of World Religions at Harvard. "They want people not to go down the road towards erotic freedom. There's a struggle...