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...good deal of attention to clothes and carriage. Lena's grandmother Cora was a college graduate--uncommon even among white women of her time. Her grandfather Edwin was an alternate delegate to the 1884 Republican Convention, as well as a teacher, journalist and entrepreneur. He spelled out the code of the emerging black bourgeoisie: ''To be the full equal of the white man, there are two particular things we need--education and wealth.'' For most of the Hornes, Buckley says, ''racism seemed the only bad fairy at the family party. One could imagine that if it were not for race...
...independence in 1947, Pakistan kept the agreement. The army stayed out. In place of government, Pakistan adopted a set of administrative and legal measures called the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) that forces the tribes to take collective responsibility for the actions of their members. Justice follows the tribal code and is meted out by clan elders who consult in public gatherings called jirgas. It was an imperfect solution to a difficult problem. But when al-Qaeda leaders fled Afghanistan in the wake of the 2001 war on their Taliban hosts and took refuge in the tribal areas, it became downright...
...Story of Edgar Sawtelle, and a veteran computer programmer, can't name any. "I'm a little surprised that it's so hard to think of at least one other example," he says, noting that the impulse to write fiction is hardly uncommon among people used to writing in code. "I've run into lots and lots of people in the software world who say, 'Yeah I used to write in college and have a novel in the drawer at home...
...next decade or so, Wroblewski, 48, worked full time as a developer for such companies as Honeywell, where he toiled in the avionics division, writing code for a gyroscope with no moving parts; and MCC, in Austin, Texas, the nation's first computer research consortium, where he worked in the natural language processing group on AI. How many best-selling novelists can you name with a patent? He's one of three guys who were awarded Patent 5,339,391 for "Computer Display Unit with Attribute-Enhanced Scroll Bar." (If you'd like more evidence of his geek bona fides...
...Islamic seminary students, joined by members of banned militant groups from across Pakistan, gathered near the site of the Red Mosque to commemorate the death of some 100 militants and students who had faced down the Pakistani security forces in a standoff that rocked Pakistan. The nine-day siege, code-named "Operation Silence," culminated in a vicious firefight in the usually tranquil capital that killed the mosque's firebrand prayer leader, Abdul Rashid Ghazi. At the end the mosque was still standing, but the seminary, or madrassa, had been reduced to rubble...