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...Vanya, however, is bereft. His dream is to be reunited with his birth mother, whose name he does not know. With the help of one of the whores, he learns to read, breaks into the safe where his records are stored, discovers her whereabouts and enters upon an odyssey of discovery that is dangerous - he is, after all, only 6 - yet touched by occasional grace notes. He is pursued by the adoption agent and her very tough bodyguard (if they don't deliver the boy they will not receive their fee) and in his travels he encounters people who wish...
...hard. Iraq's most revered cleric, Grand Ayatullah Husaini Sistani, speaks Arabic with a thick Persian accent. (Sistan-Baluchestan is the name of a province in southeastern Iran.) Meanwhile, across the border, Iran's top judge, Ayatullah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, struggles with Persian, the residue of an Iraqi birth. Theological cross-pollination and political exile have created deep ties between the two Shi'ite communities--and that's exactly what the U.S. is afraid of. In his speech last week announcing plans to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq, President Bush warned that if the U.S. left...
...gave birth to the U.S., but when the men who made the American Revolution went on to make a Constitution, they agonized over the rules for the new Republic's warmaking powers. They had no doubt that the state's very existence depended on its ability to field an armed force swiftly and effectively. Yet they also read history as a sorry record of warlords, monarchs and tyrants who exercised power arbitrarily. The founders meant to create a new political order in which sovereignty would reside not with the rulers but with the people, especially when it came...
...However, the most frustrating thing for me is not Boston’s native fandom. As we all learned in Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” the place of one’s birth is completely beyond one’s control. No, the most frustrating thing is the legions of Harvard students who, seemingly on cue, sprout Tom Brady jerseys and Red Sox hats and start yelling “Yankees Suck.” As one case in point, if one were to judge by student attendance at the wild rally after...
...Shanghai to Bangkok but will continue to report on China's influence throughout Asia. Adi Ignatius, a TIME executive editor who helped produce this week's package, is a Chinese speaker and a former Wall Street Journal bureau chief in Beijing; and Howard Chua-Eoan, a Filipino Chinese by birth, is our long-standing news director and an old China hand. It's his calligraphy that accompanies this week's cover story...