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Taslima Nasrin, the Bangladeshi author whose sexually frank memoir of the literary life has ignited controversy, litigation and bitter condemnations from conservative clerics and former friends alike, realizes that her situation is a bit unusual...
...Packard and Intel--but state taxes and high costs were a drag on growth. He spent a year checking out Seattle, Phoenix and Las Vegas, then bet on Reno. His employees took some persuading. Mohidul Saad, 38, a software engineer, learned of the impending move this past summer. The Bangladeshi native and his family had grown attached to their ethnic community in the Bay Area and thought of Reno as a dust-choked gambling town. They have since changed their minds. Weeks ago the Saads moved into a large home with a garden and pool--a far cry from...
...Riveting Read Re the article on the novel by Monica Ali, Brick Lane [July 14]: reviewer Aparisim Ghosh is an Asian living in Britain, which I suppose he thinks gives him excellent credentials to castigate Ali's book in no uncertain terms. Well, I am Bangladeshi; I lived in England for 10 years and worked in Brick Lane, a Bangladeshi neighborhood in London. I knew the type of people Ali wrote about very well, and I found her book riveting. It caught the truth of Brick Lane exactly and sensitively. Ali is one of Britain's best young novelists. Zeenat...
...Number of years a Bangladeshi man waited for telephone service after submitting his application...
...Narong admitted that he intended to sell the material to an unspecified terror group in Thailand, according to the Bangkok Post. Narong was hawking, for $240,000, an alarmingly large amount of cesium 137, experts said. His arrest marked the second such incident in Asia recently. On May 30, Bangladeshi police busted four suspected members of a militant Islamic group with a package of radioactive uranium suitable for use in a dirty bomb...