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As night draws near, soldiers huddle in groups, batting away mosquitoes. The political impasse has not shaken their faith in the peace process. Most seem more interested in the victories of the camp's team in a recent intra-PLA women's volleyball tournament than in recalling their brutal triumphs...
Founded by Guru Nanak in northern India during the 15th century, Sikhism drew from Sufism, Islam and Hinduism, but rejected what it saw as their worst traditions, such as the Hindu caste system. It later incorporated the teachings of nine other Gurus, or teachers, which are collected in the Guru...
Under my plan, the airlines would modify their caste system, evidently modeled on ancient India's, in which Platinum cardholders board before Gold, who board before Silver and so on, until we odious hunchbacks in straphanger class are allowed to board, trailing our leashed chickens as they peck their way...
The taint of talkiness Quality, of course, is in the eye of the beholder - as is the very meaning of culture. The term originally referred to the growing of things, as in agriculture. Eventually it came to embrace the cultivation of art, music, poetry and other "high-culture" pursuits of...
“The belief that pornography inhabits its own separate world is an illusion,” a visiting Harvard Law School professor told the 50-odd audience members gathered yesterday in the Thompson Room in the Barker Center. In a speech titled “X-Underrated?...