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...first times I walked into Memorial Hall, I looked up and saw the name of someone I knew quite well—someone whose papers I’d read, whose death I knew all about,” said Faust, who spoke beneath the seals of Harvard’s 11 schools that ring the Coop’s balcony...
...Indian magazines and newspapers may be full of surveys attesting to loosening sexual strictures among the swelling middle class, but scratch beneath the surface of liberated young India and you will often find the same old social conservatism - especially when it comes to marriage. "The thrust remains on preserving family and social stability and cohesion," says Delhi-based sociologist Patricia Oberoi. "Most youngsters are still committed to maintaining their social position through marriage... studies show that as many as 80% youngsters opine arranged marriages are best...
...Moqtada al-Sadr in November 2003 at his office down a narrow alleyway in Najaf. We sat on pillows on the floor and he answered my questions with short, perfunctory statements. Barely 30, he had a round face, broad shoulders and a habit of glaring at guests beneath his thick, black eyebrows. He came across as menacing yet dull. At the time, he was holding massive Friday-afternoon prayer rallies that he populated with poor workers bused in from the slums of Sadr City in Baghdad 100 miles to the north. I was hearing rumors that his followers were kidnapping...
...continues Merritt’s obsession with the concept album: his commitment to an explicit theme can hinder as much as it enhances. “Mr. Mistletoe” may be a genuinely Christmas-y tune at its core, but it’s hard to tell from beneath the layers of white noise. “Drive On, Driver,” a soaring, triumphant standout, should have been Simms’ version of VU’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” with a melody that begs for the careful...
...tornado that hit Greensburg on May 4 took its time, rolling up Main Street like it was on a Sunday walk to church. Ron Shank, the owner of the Kansas town's only General Motors dealership, hid with his wife beneath a quilt in the basement, but they heard the storm rip their home from its foundations. Marvin George, a pastor at the Baptist church, sheltered in his closet. "We just knelt and prayed," he says. "I wasn't scared until the next morning, when I saw the carnage...