Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with her favorite black-and-white photo of King Hussein framed in silver at her side, the story she tells of their last months and days together, especially "the sudden, vicious rebound [that] caught us all by surprise," is a heartbreaking final chapter to one of the Middle East's most unusual romances. Noor says the six months in the U.S. during Hussein's cancer treatment were among their most enriching times together since the former Princeton cheerleader (ne Lisa Halaby) married the Arab monarch two decades ago. They lived at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, kept up on work...
...flaws to satisfy contemporary skeptics but who also struggles convincingly with the old-fashioned task of being a good person. For all its leisurely pace, Evensong turns out, near the end, to have wasted few words. It concludes with an Epilogue, set further in the future than its opening chapter, that not only ties up loose ends but also dares to be, in these uncertain times, optimistic...
Khokar's speech on "Hindus, Muslims and the Bomb: Relations Between India and Pakistan in the 21st Century," sponsored by the Harvard chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), drew about 40 listeners...
...WCRP is a UN organization with chapters around the world. According to Reza Aslan, president of the Harvard branch, Harvard's is the only student-organized chapter in existence...
...many in America, the war in Kosovo seems like another chapter in the never ending litany of horrors that emerge from that corner of Europe. My first response to my friend's decision to leave Hungary was to advise her to stay another day, to wait things out, to see what happened. Things would be all right, as they always have been. "My parents are from South America," she told me. "They know what it's like to live in an unstable country." And, indeed what can I know about the situation, speaking even fewer words of Hungarian than...