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DIED. K.R. NARAYANAN, 85, India's first "untouchable" President; in New Delhi. A member of the Dalits, the group of Hindus on the lowest rung of the brutal 3,000-year caste system, he used his post to vocally rebuke the "caste-ism" that deemed his people unclean...
...Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, had sat calmly sipping a Seven-Up and explaining why he wasn't afraid of death. It was his faith, he said, that made it possible for him to risk his life to do his job: ensuring that even members of Saddam's brutal regime got a fair trial. Despite the danger of assassination-a second member of the defense team was killed last month-he put his fate in the hands of God. "I believe now we are sitting together," he told TIME in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Bar Association on Monday...
...than 60 works exploring the suffering of South Asian women and the violent division of the Indian subcontinent following the end of British rule in 1947; in New Delhi. Born to a Sikh family in what is now Pakistan, Pritam fled to India during the country's partition?a brutal period that she described in her most famous poem, Ode to Waris Shah...
...hours were brutal, and the compressed deadlines forced strapped senior managers to execute every type of task. At 3 one morning, just 41/2 hours before a pitch meeting with a key sponsor, Tim Hinchey, the team's corporate-development chief, munched on Denny's cheeseburgers with two NBA execs while waiting for a presentation to print at an Oklahoma City Kinko's. "Here we are, three fairly experienced guys in the league, wearing our sweatshirts, jeans and baseball hats," says Hinchey. "How did we get here? This was kind of crazy." Shorthanded, the Hornets asked members of their dance squad...
...servicemen in your family; what do you think can be passed on? AS: I didn’t listen to the lesson my father tried to teach me, which was to not join the military…my father saw, as most men who served in Vietnam saw, rather brutal and heinous things and wisely, he didn’t want his sons to see the same things. So I failed to listen to lessons that could have been taught to me. What I’ve done with “Jarhead” is simply...