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...Bahadur Chettri's brief but unflinching 1957 Nepali fable Mountains Painted with Turmeric. Where did the family migrate to? Were they ever avenged? Chettri's novella - one of Nepal's most popular stories, reprinted 30 times in the country and now widely available for the first time in English - doesn't say, but likely they went to India, perhaps West Bengal, Sikkim or Assam, where Chettri, despite being such a prominent figure of Nepali letters, was born, raised and still lives...
...Street, Kerviel's salary amounted to chump change. And the fact that he wasn't eligible for dizzyingly huge bonuses is so alien to the average Wall Street trader that they're still trying to digest it. One, a college friend of mine who didn't study "trading" but English literature, and is now a multimillionaire, e-mailed me: "What is that, a French thing...
...Number of students with passing scores on advanced-placement tests in English, math and science in the 10 Dallas schools with a cash-for-grades program, up from...
...Tariq Modood, has been "finely poised between a religion of the ghetto and a religion of social mobility." For Farhan Qureshi, it was watching Woody Allen's films that inspired him to become a movie director. But Islam provided practical and spiritual spurs to success. Waking up on cold English winter mornings to perform Fajr, the dawn prayer, gave him an extra half-hour to write before setting off for his job as an engineer. Islam, he says, also reassured him that his screenwriting efforts were worthwhile: "It teaches you that good work that one does from the heart...
...Hank Dittmar, chairman of the Chicago-based CNU and CEO of the Prince of Wales' Foundation for the Built Environment, shared space is the nub of what Prince Charles had in mind in 1987 when he founded the experimental village of Poundbury on land that he owns in the English countryside. Architecturally, the village is often panned as a nostalgic exercise in faux-bucolic Englishness. But in prioritizing people over cars, says Dittmar, the winding streets and discreet signs used in Poundbury make it a model for high-density urban design. The bigger challenge, he says, is "retrofitting places that...