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...Brad M. Smith ’05, Parvinder S. Thiara ’07, Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, and Elise D. Wang ’07 were among the 32 scholars chosen from a pool of 896 candidates. The six will begin study at Oxford University next October...
Washington may currently be consumed with the topic of whether and how to begin withdrawing from the chaos of Iraq, but the other (forgotten) front in the war on terror is likely to attract more attention in the months ahead. There has always been more support in Congress for bringing al-Qaeda and its Taliban hosts to justice than for waging war in Iraq. And that tendency is sure to grow even stronger given the tide of anti-Iraq-war lawmakers elected to office earlier this month and the arrival of new leadership at the Pentagon...
...year or so. Then there is another group of 200 to 300 for whom this buying is bringing China into their sights." Kostyal, who recently flew into Beijing for two days of gallery tours and visits to artists' studios, believes that a second--and larger--group will soon begin to buy, further bolstering the market...
BLAZING TAILWINDS Guess what the new German airline Smintair (Smokers International Airways) will let you do? When flights begin next October, every passenger--and crew member--is welcome to light up, from takeoff to landing...
...former president of New Delhi's Foreign Correspondents' Club liked to startle newly arrived American and British journalists by telling them to begin work on their big India book at once. If they protested that they had just landed and would need at least a year to write a book, he insisted that they had got it exactly wrong. "The first day in India," he would say, "every foreigner is convinced he can write a book about it. After a year of living here, he realizes he can't write a meaningful sentence about...