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...December 30, 2005, as I sat aboard a British Airways plane headed from Harare to home, a flight attendant tapped me on the shoulder and asked me a simpler question, “Are you Amar Bakshi?” I nodded yes. “Mr. Bakshi, please collect your bags; there are some men waiting for you outside.” Five men in faded tan suits stood on the causeway and told me I was in their world...
During the meeting, subcommittee members divided group representatives into small workshops to collect feedback about the space allocation process...
...Harvard in addition to his role as the University’s chief librarian, says that “Harvard Library has been around for 350 years,” and his “guess is that at no point in its history did Harvard go out to collect books bound in human skin...
Tatsumi's The Push Man collects stories written in 1969, with an eye towards annual volumes that will collect more of this prolific artist's decades-long career. Totally absent of giant robots, schoolgirl romantic melodrama or any manner of supernatural beings, the stories of The Push Man are set exclusively in the gritty, working-class world of Japan's modern cities. Mostly kept to eight pages due to their original appearance in a Japanese comic anthology, they are endlessly inventive, compact tales full of cruel irony, quiet desperation and schadenfreude. Editor Adrian Tomine (author of Summer Blonde), correctly points...
...When the flight attendant came to collect the trash, I tried to pop the bag into her sack, only to have her recoil and inform me that ?human fluids? could not go in the trash, because it was headed back to the galley. Diapers had to go in the lavatory garbage, she sniffed, knowing full well I wasn?t allowed out of my seat...