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...late Sir James Goldsmith and the husband of Pakistani cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan, tried to tell the Western media about the terrible misery in the refugee camps where so many Afghans are forced to live. Nobody was interested. But they were very keen on a photo-shoot of beautiful, blond Jemima in her Pakistani clothes...
...placed one each at the four corners of the building. None of the villagers was quite sure what the sacrifice was for. Some said the family who lived in the house wanted to exorcise a demon. Others said the priest was invoking the spirits to help the village cricket team win that day's tournament...
...route to the 4,700-m-high Buran Pass?on such an auspicious day ensured we were soon installed as guests of honor at the competition. Seven teams from across the mountains would try to best each other on what was probably the world's highest and most dysfunctional cricket pitch. In the center of one terrace was a clay wicket. The marijuana meadow formed one boundary. The terraces below were another: fielders stationed there couldn't see the play and had to be alerted by spectators if the ball was coming their way. As the only male...
...goes to hear an action movie. Everybody wants to see Li in action. So watch him defeat bad guys with the tools of domesticity: a mop, a bale of laundry and (ouch) an iron. Gasp as he kicks a billiard ball out of an end pocket, then swats it, cricket-bat-style, into a villain's cranium. See him use a desk drawer as a truncheon. He sneaks past a sentry's guardhouse outside the evil inspecteur's police station and, just to show he can, he rams his foot through his guardhouse door, neatly kicking the sentry...
...later, still clutching the 50 rupee note she had been carrying as a deposit for a school picnic. While her relatives make funeral arrangements, Vajpayee hosts Musharraf at a glittering banquet lunch in New Delhi surrounded by 165 of India's best and brightest, including Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar and novelist Vikram Seth...