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...shop-owners in Paharganj-a congested zone of cheap backpacker hotels and clothing and fabric stores, just off New Delhi's main railway station. A bomb went off this evening in a busy intersection in Paharganj, killing at 16 people and injuring 60. (An explosion in the Sarojini district may have killed 39; another bomb went off in a bus in south Delhi; while police defused another in Chandi Chowk.) Chawla's handicrafts store is just meters away from the epicenter of the blast, which took place in an intersection packed with shoppers-including women and children-doing last-minute...
...trouble with the law yet again—this time, on two charges of rape. Kevin Bennett, 33, was arrested on Oct. 9 near Augusta, Maine with a default warrant from his previous arrest on the Harvard College campus. He has pled not guilty to the charges in Cambridge District Court, and is being held on a $2 million bail. Bennett was arrested in front of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) in April after a dramatic chase that started with him masturbating in a window visible to the public near Peet’s Coffee and ended with him being...
...gotten pretty good at keeping them in check. But when my dad called the night I heard about Grandpa’s death, my ability to remain in control dropped out from beneath me. As the sun set on a quiet residential street in the Jewish district of Krakow, I yelled at my dad and my sister. I fought tears, and yet they came anyway. I still don’t know if I was angry or just sad that I had missed saying goodbye. For the first time in a long time, my self-control just evaporated, and suddenly...
Before he was an amateur fashion designer, Travis R. Wood ’07 was a skater. “I usually dressed in a skater-brand sweatshirt and jeans,” says Wood, sporting painted jeans and an inside-out Garment District sweater. “My father looked at me one day and told me that I looked like everyone else.” Realizing that his father was right, Wood was inspired during his gap year in China to start making his own clothes with the fabrics he found there. Wood is one of a group...
...party fights. But in the Ohio Senate race, where incumbent Republican Mike Dewine has low poll numbers, Democrats could have a very contested primary. Two top Senate Democrats, Harry Reid and Charles Schumer, actively encouraged Paul Hackett, an Iraqi war veteran who nearly won in a heavily Republican House district in a special election earlier this year, to enter the Senate race there. Reid and Schumer's wives even called Hackett's. But over the last couple of weeks, after Hackett indicated he would run, Ohio Democratic House Member Sherrod Brown announced he wanted the seat after declining entreaties early...