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...house and garden, they now await a bus to take them to a refugee camp two hours from Stockholm. This group alone represents a significant loss of talent for Iraq: Raya's 24-year-old sister is a doctor who recently graduated second in her medical school class, her brother is a construction engineer who worked alongside the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and her husband is a translator for Western diplomats in Baghdad...
...dertälje, southwest of Stockholm. Ali Hamid, a 33-year-old Shi'ite ophthalmologist, had a scrawled death threat slipped under his door; he fled last month, leaving behind his wife and two children. Raya, the maternity doctor, says her family decided to leave when her brother found a note tucked under his windshield wiper saying: "Your whole family will be killed because you work with the Americans." Raya and her sister tossed bedsheets over the living room furniture and fled to Syria, where they bought forged European papers and then boarded a flight for Prague...
...early 2004, however, Noorzai says, President Karzai's brother phoned to lobby him to talk to the Americans again. "'You are a tribal leader,'" Noorzai said Wali Karzai told him. "'You can help.'" Separately, Noorzai got a call from Saitullah Khan Babar, a friend and former officer in Pakistan's military intelligence service, the ISI. The Americans, Babar told Noorzai, had proposed a meeting in Dubai, neutral turf. Warily, Noorzai agreed...
...group of chatting Harvard professors does not a maelstrom make. While he may be the source of the term “stream of consciousness” as applied to mental processes, James had little patience for formal innovations in art and literature, even scorning much of his brother Henry’s work as overly experimental. Despite these flaws, Richardson’s book will occupy a comfortable place at the center of contemporary James biographies for years to come. Richardson is especially good at tracing particular James theories from their first gestations to their eventual appearance in published...
...must crush them no matter what they say in Mecca," shouted one man, who had lost a brother in the fighting. An official quickly hushed him, but during the outburst, several of his comrades murmured their approval for revenge...