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...Pakistani civil servant and an American writer, Mueenuddin, 45, grew up in Lahore and Wisconsin and graduated from Dartmouth (where, he says, "I more or less passed as an American"). In 1987, at the request of his ailing father, he moved to the family property in southern Punjab to learn the business and try, if he could, to keep the land from slipping out of the family's hands. Seven years later, he returned to the States--this time for law school and a stint at a New York City firm--but after a few years, the farm...
While everyone is describing Obama as our first black President, Andrew Young's comments in your article on civil rights leaders' perspectives were closer to the truth [Jan. 26]. Young says, "He isn't just black; he's an Afro-Asian-Latin European. That means he's a global citizen and an all-American boy ... The fact that his father and grandfather on one side were black doesn't make him any more of a black President than his grandfather on the other side being white would make him a white President." Thank you, Mr. Young, for getting it right...
...This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” Faust’s sixth book, is among five titles that have been selected for the award...
University President Drew G. Faust’s most recent Civil War book has garnered another award nomination, chosen as a finalist in the non-fiction category for the National Book Critics Circle Award...
...Israeli war planners had vowed to destroy the "infrastructure of terror" in Gaza, but many Gazans - even those opposed to Hamas - believe the operation was directed against general infrastructure. It certainly demolished much of Gaza's economy and civil society...