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...Mandalay on buses and trucks and spread with viral stealth through the city's network of trishaw drivers. Hiring one to check out the dark, deserted streets, I was struck by how well suited trishaws were to disseminating news. With me leaning forward in my seat and the driver bent slightly with the exertion of pedaling the rutted tarmac, he could whisper into my ear without anyone noticing, let alone hearing. He told me that eight charred bodies from Kyaukse had arrived at the city morgue. "The government killed them!" he said in a Gollum-like hiss. "The government killed...
...becoming the third Nehru-Gandhi Prime Minister, but in May 1991 a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed the 46-year-old over the Indian army's 1987-90 incursion into Sri Lanka. It took six years and an internal party crisis that threatened to split Congress before Sonia, too, bent to that same Gandhian sense of obligation and agreed to take her husband's place at the head of the party...
Before you pen that acidulous letter about how we’re all blind ultra-liberal children of privilege/zealot communists bent on societal destruction, read on: I would actually propose that the Commonwealth “marry” no one—as it has no business trafficking in areas with such religious implication and passion—and rather secure the right of civil union for all of its citizens, leaving the churches/synagogues/temples to decide their definition of marriage...
...case, the outside world will not take Hamas for anything but an implacable terrorist outfit bent on the elimination of Israel. And publicly, its leaders stick to the group's hard-core aims. With the elevation of Rantisi, the last word among Hamas' decision makers belongs to the most uncompromising firebrand in the leadership...
...waited on the beach to meet a killer. The man we had come to see carried out murder operations for Hamas, the militant organization bent on reclaiming all of historic Palestine from Israel. We parked our car in a designated spot so his watchers could check that we hadn't been tailed. As the sun dipped into the sea lapping the Gaza Strip on a steamy night last June, the killer was cooling off with a swim. For a wanted man, he seemed rather audacious, relaxing unarmed on the crowded seashore. But though he appeared at ease, he took meticulous...