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...automobile and the motion-picture camera: these are the two machines that most influenced the shape and speed of 20th century culture. Both were transporting devices. One got Americans out of their neighborhoods; the other, out of themselves. At the dawn of the 21st century, what miracle have these machines combined to bring the world? Car-chase movies...
...Sind Club nearby found the severed arm of a woman, with lacquered fingernails and bangles, which had been blown over the wall. The woman was one of the 12 fatalities, and 43 others were wounded in the consulate attack. Club president, Hussain Haroon, whose family owns the English-language Dawn newspaper and has been prominent in Karachi for more than 150 years, says glumly, " With the Sind Club, I feel like I'm protecting an island in a sea of anarchy...
...collect the dead and give them a decent burial, also declines to flee. And that's a good thing for Karachi: his charity foundation now runs orphanages, mental institutions, clinics and ambulance services. Ardeshir Cowasjee, an irascible millionaire who wears silk pajamas and writes a weekly column for Dawn in which he tracks corruption to the highest places, vows to stay put, as does sociologist and city planner Arif Hassan who campaigns to save the few remaining buildings from Karachi's regal colonial past. Roland De Souza, whose organization SHERRI fights against illegal land developers whom he says are often...
Most days, Crist and Meyer went to the races at night, came back with the next day’s lineup and studied it until dawn. Then they slept—often up to the time they had to head back to Wonderland...
...tender compassion of God/ The dawn from on high shall break upon us,” he writes...