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...most what they get. Such basic amenities as power and clean drinking water are lacking. Caste still plays its malignant role, with upper castes dominating most high offices in government and the private sector. The Dalits should also get their share. Only then will it really be a new dawn for India. Nawal Thorat Aurangabad, India...
...probably be consequences. Very serious ones. Moreover, the course I’m taking is part of a Harvard Summer School program. Thus, it’s designed to be as intense as the standard Harvard curriculum: four-and-a-half hours of instruction every day, starting almost with dawn. It seems you can take the classes out of Harvard, but not the Harvard out of the classes—not only regarding difficulty, but also the requisite complaints of the students about their workload. Only, one must be slightly more inventive in a different language. So, my first week...
...North Korea did not blink, and its launch of six missiles before dawn on Wednesday prompted a hastily convened 7 a.m. meeting in Tokyo between U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer and Japan's Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Minister and Defense Agency Director. "This is a very dangerous thing that [North Korea has] done this morning," Schieffer told reporters after the meeting. The Japanese government, especially its foreign ministry, has been in a state of frenzied activity ever since...
...wine. During La Fête de la Musique, which is a citywide all-night music festival where both professional and amateur musicians and DJs play all night (in addition to many drunk Parisians who think they are musicians by 2 or 3 a.m.), I walked and danced till dawn along the cobblestones. I might have even thought that I was a musician by 2 or 3 a.m. Nobody sits to watch the World Cup matches: Parisians have fun on their feet. This rainy Sunday night, as I forgo the football match and sit here in front of my computer...
...just past 1:00 a.m., June 28, 1865, a few tilting spins of the earth beyond the year's longest day. And in the Bering Strait, the hazy rose-colored summer-dawn breaking over the blue-white ice-floes crowding its waters revealed a curious tableau: framed by the dark distant, snow-crowned headlands to the east and west and, at a lower elevation, the two, flat- and sheer-sided Diomede Islands tucked between those mainland heights, rose a forest of masts, sails, and rigging. Closer inspection revealed a listing, three-masted whaleship. Moored...