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Reams have been written on the differences between Islamic and Western societies, but for sheer pithiness, it's hard to beat a quip by my former colleague, a Pakistani scholar of Islamic studies. I'd strolled into his office one day to find him on the floor, at prayer. I left, shutting his door, mortified. Later, he cheerfully batted my apologies away. "That's the big difference between us," he shrugged. "You Westerners make love in public and pray in private. We Muslims do exactly the reverse...
...East Yorkshire Regiment, the best British team in India, barefoot in the final. Boria Majumdar, India's leading sports historian and author of Goalless, a history of Indian football, describes it as "India's Lagaan moment" - referring to the 2001 Bollywood blockbuster about a fictional cricket-playing village that beat the ruling British at their own game. This was real life, however, and Kolkata erupted in cele-brations, with Hindus and Muslims, poor and rich, all united in anticolonial sentiment. The glory of the moment cemented football's place in the soul of the city...
...Bagan and East Bengal dominated the Kolkata sports scene for decades thereafter. "It was hardly football; it was religion," says Kishore Bhimani, a veteran journalist who did football commentary in Kolkata in the 1970s. Though the playing squads were often mixed - eight of Mohun Bagan's 11 who famously beat the British in 1911 were from East Bengali backgrounds - supporters, for the most part, were fiercely sectarian. On both sides, they would routinely wait three days in line to collect tickets. The names of game-winning goal scorers and clumsy defenders entered city lore year after year. Violence and riots...
...Dawn Carpenter, PhiladelphiaI knew it was a really good show. Initially, we were picked up for Friday at 10:00. But when I found out we got picked up for Thursday night, I looked over at my buddy and said, 'I think my career just got made.' Then we beat out Chicago Hope, which wasn't supposed to happen. The minute that happened, I knew things would be different. But no, I am not coming back. I think it would be a distraction. I did come back once to pick up Julianna [Margulies] from the show, but I wouldn...
...shows that I would be, by far, the strongest candidate against Hillary Clinton," he said the day after the grenade landed. "There hasn't been one taken in the last six or seven months that shows anything other than I'm the Republican that has the best chance to beat her." Perhaps he is getting accustomed to being left out of the club that doesn't want him as a member. The Iowa Christian Alliance just threw a dinner to which they invited all the GOP candidates--except...