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...scarf, puzzling her American friends and perturbing her liberal relatives. "I was very comfortable in America," she says, "but I always felt there was something missing." After the Taliban fell in 2001, Rangina said goodbye to her friends and family members, got on a plane to Pakistan and then drove to Kandahar: "I wanted to come back and work with my people...
Some have already made the journey. Speaking on his cell phone as he drove back to Cambridge after canvassing for John Kerry, Nicholas F. B. Smyth ’05, said he was confident of Kerry’s chances to win the Democratic nomination...
...Reagan's spend, spend, spend economic policies drove the country into a catastrophic debt that our great grandchild's grandchildren will not be able to pay off. His mental state was such that he should have been removed from office long before his term was up. A. Lashway Northampton...
...movies and, in the winter, help his neighbors shovel snow. His take-home pay was usually only a few hundred dollars a week, but the week he died, he made his last regular payment on a loan extended by a friend to help him buy the Geo Metro he drove. He played the lottery regularly and once collected a $250 payout, which he talked about for weeks. A co-worker, Robert Slayton, recalls that Wells' only vice seemed to be liquor: "He got off work at 9, and usually at 8 he'd ask if it was O.K. to make...
...Later that day, I hired a jeep and driver for the 34-kilometer journey back to Munnar; we also drove into what turned out to be the day's high point. The first sign of the latter was a long and honking traffic jam?not the kind of thing you expect in up-country Kerala. But as I leaned out of the window, the source of the disruption became clear. For there on the road in front of us was a lone, enraged bull elephant...