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...center of her work. As the author of some 50 books, she is more prolific than Kirino, although only one previous work has been translated into English. That's The Hunter, a fetching police procedural that follows Detective Takako Otomichi as she struggles to prove her mettle and earn the respect of her loutish male counterparts in the Tokyo police force's insular Criminal Affairs Division. The whodunit won Nonami the 1996 Naoki Prize, awarded for general literary excellence and nabbed in subsequent years by Kirino and fellow mystery writer Miyabe Miyuki, proving that all three women write with rather...
...Hussain has a lot of explaining to do as she campaigns for a parliamentary seat in Pakistan. The 61-year-old, two-time member of the National Assembly is a veteran of the country's rough-and-tumble politics: she has switched political parties four times. That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms. But this time around, Hussain has a powerful ally: the ghost of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Prime Minister who was assassinated on December...
...voter cares about," says a Western official, who calls politicking in Pakistan "pork-barrel politics to the nth degree." The whole system is built around largesse, favors and influence peddling, he says. Instead, politicians prefer to buy flour themselves and distribute it amongst the poor - a better way to earn personal loyalty and guarantee votes the next time around...
...racket of hard-serving Slavko Bijelica that bounced high into the air. He powered a backhand return winner, giving Harvard the break point, which Ermakov sealed with a powerful down-the-line backhand. Ermakov then held serve with two aces to give the pair an 8-6 win and earn Harvard the doubles point.The rest of the match seemed easy for the Crimson, especially for Kumar at No. 2, who breezed to a 6-4, 6-2 win in less than an hour. Kumar showed his back troubles were gone, running his opponent back and forth at will, finishing points...
...It’s so great that we now have seven divers on our team with so much talent and depth.”Last year, Papadakis was the only Crimson diver to break into the top five.On the swim side of the meet, Harvard did not earn as many first-place finishes as it has in previous years but showed the depth of its roster by securing numerous second and third-places. The Crimson’s freshmen earned a number of these point-earning finishes.“[The freshmen] played a huge role this weekend...