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...long I sat there. In a dark room, in complete isolation, time assumed a different meaning or had no meaning at all. My legs felt stiff and my head ached. The night dragged on very slowly. More and more I felt that I was buried in a cement box deep underground. My hands
...remaining wine cups in the box and went upstairs to inspect the damage. My heart sank. On the third floor landing were fragments of porcelain in colors of oxblood, imperial yellow, celadon green and blue-and-white. The third-floor rooms resembled a scene after an earthquake. The Red Guards had emptied my storage cupboard. Flour, sugar and food lay on top of heaps of clothing they had taken out of cupboards. They had already dealt with my fur coats and evening dresses with scissors. The ceiling fan was whirling. Bits of fur, silk and torn tissue paper were flying...
...boarding school in the eastern Indonesian city of Makassar, continued. "Westerners treat women like flowers. They bloom, and everyone can see they are beautiful. But then they fade quickly and die." The Wahhabi treatment was different: "Women are like precious jewels," Ikhwan repeated. "They should be kept in a box, where only a special few can see them and cherish them. Then they will last forever...
...Ikhwan's jewelry-box lecture was directed, albeit politely, at Tatap and me. Both of us were wearing long shirts and trousers. But our necks were showing and our hair was uncovered. Truth be told, we were showing considerable wrist. The journalistic dress code is tricky in such situations: I don't show up for interviews in miniskirts, as a rule, and I try to be sensitive to indigenous customs. But what if local tradition means ignoring my presence altogether? I once conducted an interview in northern Afghanistan with a formerly Taliban-aligned warlord, who refused to speak directly...
...league season. Harris had perhaps the finest game of his career to date. On a night when the rest of the team uncharacteristically struggled shooting the ball, Harris converted 7-of-11 from the floor and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line. He also flooded the box score by adding three assists, two blocks and three steals. “If you look at his stat line tonight, it’s a Matt Stehle [‘06] stat line—he’s got numbers in every column,” said Harvard coach...