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...first tombs to fuse Persian and Mughal styles in a way that prefigured the design of the Taj Mahal a century later. But as Thakur steps inside, she is assaulted by a stench that reveals the mausoleum's current function: it has become a toilet. "Heritage in India is endless," says Thakur, head of New Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture and widely regarded as India's leading conservationist. "But year by year, even the best is disappearing. It's a crisis, a scandal. If we don't act, we're going to lose it completely...
...clever displays of hard-boiled outlaw tradecraft--but when they're expertly staged and pitilessly lighted by McCarthy, they somehow mean more than in an ordinary thriller. No Country is suffused with Modernist melancholy, a sense that our civilization is dying and all we have ahead of us are endless salt flats of moral and cultural aridity. Sheriff Bell sees people like Chigurh as avatars of things to come. "I aint sure we've seen these people before," he growls. "Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even." Bell's gloominess sometimes verges on kids-these-days...
...watch on TV. A year ago, when TIME's Iraqi staff members gathered around the office TV set for a break, they tended to watch Lebanese music videos and Egyptian sitcoms. These days, they almost always watch the news, usually on one of the many Arabic channels that offer endless images of death and desperation in Iraq. So grim is the mood that even escapist entertainment provides no relief. "The news is our life," says Rashid, one of my Iraqi co-workers. "And our life is the news." The sobering reality for the Bush Administration is that it's becoming...
Everyone who talks about Paul during his time at Harvard remembers his achievements; the hours of work on bio textbooks that led to his magna cum laude graduation, the endless reps at the MAC, the late-night calls to rev up Eliot House for intramurals. But Paul was so much more than another overachiever. His greatest pleasure in life didn’t come from high marks and accolades, but from relationships in which laughter, loyalty, and adventure formed the kind of tight bonds about which most people can only dream. His family and friends adored and relied...
...with its tragic but heroic, laurel-crowned youth, is the poem that springs to mind when one think of Paul, and anyone who knew him should read it. Another poem by Pablo Neruda also recalls him to me. The poem contrasts a bright bunch of yellow flowers with the endless sea, and describes how one’s eye is drawn away from the sea’s deepness and vastness to the explosive, earth-bound beauty of the flowers. After all, “We are dust and to dust return/ in the end we’re / neither...