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...Prize for Interpreter of Maladies, long before Monica Ali won thousands of devoted readers with her heartrending Brick Lane, another novelist was offering us exquisitely detailed portraits of bodies in transit--Easterners in the West, half-Westerners back "home" in the East, people who don't know where they belong--and master classes in the art of sly and sensuous fiction. Born to a German mother and a Bengali father in India, long a resident of Britain and the U.S., Anita Desai was a global, migrant writer before such a thing was fashionable...
...Woman Curser: “Escort Crash on Marston Street” by Heavenly from the album Heavenly Vs. Satan; 0:10 into the track. “Heavenly” describes lead singer Amelia Fletcher’s voice perfectly. Her notes are ethereal, lilting; they seem to belong on a plane completely separate from our own. So when she opens this 1991 track with the words “Oh hey Robert / you’re driving much too fucking fast,” her casual cuss strikes me as especially enticing. That the song?...
...Quaid-e-Azam University. That would defuse tension between these two nuclear-armed enemies. A partial settlement over Kashmir could be one major surprise in the offing. Musharraf has suggested dropping Pakistan's insistence that a referendum be held among Kashmiris to choose whether they want the territory to belong to India or Pakistan. But President Bush will also have to decide whether to push Musharraf into establishing a timetable for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan. As opposition politician Chaudhry Nisar told TIME: "Why are the Americans boasting about bringing democracy to Afghanistan when nothing is being done...
Bolden-Kramer emphasized that the house does not belong to HSF, and according to Simmons, only part of the first floor area would be open to student groups under the pending agreement...
First, the vast majority of men at Harvard don’t have the ability to partake in the final club scene. First-year men are almost wholly excluded from this form of “going-out.” Unless they belong to sports teams, which gives them special “ins,” they are left to enjoy enthralling Undergraduate Council gatherings at Loker or risk proctor-intervention during short-lived Yard parties. Lucky sophomore men are given the opportunity to punch, but the reality is that each of the eight clubs (which have memberships...