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...quake and the civil war between the contras and the Sandinistas disrupted, among other things, plans to number the streets. And so giving directions here is still, as former New York Times Managua bureau chief Stephen Kinzer described it, a "Socratic" technique, based on first determining what the direction asker knows, then working backward from there...
...held for two seasons until heart problems forced him to step down early last year. Or perhaps, as rumor has it, the show's producers balked at Bachchan's steep fee. Whatever the reason for the change of host, the question of whether Khan would be a better question-asker than Bachchan has taken on national importance in recent months with weekly newsmagazine India Today arguing in an overwrought cover story that Bollywood's biggest stars were "locked in a war that has divided politicians, industrialists and advertisers...
...grave is down at a crossroads by the mosque. An Israeli helicopter passes overhead. The friend of the dead man promises, ''We will never forget.'' Has Israel lost its way? Israelis may find the question offensive. It implies that the answer is yes. And further, that the asker knows the true ''way'' and Israel does not. The question suggests that Israel, in making its way through history, may have obliviously or foolishly blundered into swamps or deserts off the true path. Would anyone ask if France had lost its way? If Japan had lost its way? And yet: Israel, although...
Resident Tutor John W. Asker caused the fire and ensuing alarm, when he forgot to open the flue in his fireplace...
...Asker declined to comment for this story...