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...students protesting Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s recent article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were not the only ones standing outside Science Center B yesterday (News, “Students Confront Dershowitz Over Article,” March 20). I was there, too, standing opposite the group with a counter-protest of my own. To make sure that both sides of the argument were represented, I wrote two signs of my own: “End Suicide Bombings” and (in response to the protesters’ “What if Cambridge...
Jones got her way with Blue Note, but flitting into the public eye has forced her to confront the dangling issue of her famous father. Shankar, 81, has said he regrets not playing a greater role in his daughter's life. In early February, when Jones played a Manhattan show, Shankar, who often plays concert dates with another daughter, Anoushka, 20, for the first time saw his older daughter perform. The subject makes Jones uncomfortable: "I don't want to bash my dad--I love my dad--but I don't want to give him credit for something he didn...
...world leaders began looking to him to help fill the vacuum once the Taliban fell. Zahir Shah said age is often the first factor visitors consider. "But this is the very reason for my return," he insisted. "I want to dedicate the last few years of my life to confront the difficulties in the land to which I belong...
Those difficulties won't be easy to confront. Taliban and al-Qaeda forces are regrouping in pockets around the country, and there are simmering feuds among tribal and ethnic factions. "The current conditions are not an ordinary state of affairs," Zahir Shah concedes. "But today, we can say there is no civil war in Afghanistan." There was disturbing evidence this month that the fragile internal peace may not hold, as U.S. commanders were reportedly forced to modify their assault in the region of Gardez because rival warlords fighting alongside the Americans were said to be ready to clash over...
...however, if the world created in the works of these three looming figures consists of estrangement, interminable searching and an everlasting desire to return home and understand one’s self and one’s society, how can the outsider—forced to confront these problems at every turn—be happy? In response to this question, Ashbery mused, “I don’t know yet.” Kincaid asked, “Is it possible to be happy and anything else?” And Rushdie, peering down his glasses...