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Those professionals who have left feel they have no choice. The refugees describe a pattern of anonymous death threats by faceless armed groups, which some believe is designed to drive out middle-class Iraqis. Among the new arrivals in Sweden are hundreds of Iraqi Christians - including at least five priests...
Describe yourself in three words: Making it work.
But a funny thing happens in wartime: The U.S. military, which likes to describe peacetime helicopter accidents as "hard landings" or with other euphemisms, is often quick to suggest that a helicopter downing in a war zone "does not seem due to hostile fire." An accident, in other words. So...
So it is perhaps not surprising that Sujit Saraf chose Chandni Chowk as the main setting for his ambitious 750-page novel of politics, commerce and manners in modern India. The Peacock Throne does for Delhi and democracy what Vikram Chandra's recent 900-page Sacred Games does for Mumbai...
''What do they want?'' I drowsily asked my maidservant. ''They didn't say. But they behaved in a very unusual manner.'' ''Tell them I'll be down presently,'' I said. ''Give them a cold drink and some cigarettes.'' I did not hurry. I wanted time to think and be ready...