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...complexity and poetical phrasing of the dastan - so perfect by the flickering light of a fire and before a richly colored canvas - began to seem affected, if not a little odd, set down in stark, black-and-white text. Amir Hamza needed to breathe the air of a premodern era - "when rational people could still sit and listen to a storyteller," as Memon puts it, "and believe in djinn and spirits...
...With its red-hot cinema, culinary culture and contemporary art scene, Mexico City is North America's capital of cool. But spare a thought for the colonial-era towns in the vicinity of the world's second largest metropolis. Chief among them is Puebla, two hours southeast of the capital. Set in a valley and ringed by a series of volcanoes - including the 14,636-ft (4,461-m) Malinche - Puebla was founded in 1531 along an important pre-Columbian trade route. This helped Puebla prosper during Spanish rule, resulting in one of the most elaborate and colorful town squares...
...Holwin’ Pelle Almqvist pretentiously crooning, “We rule the world.” The song’s chorus, unsurprisingly, features a voice spelling out the band’s name. It’s an awful impersonation of “Idiot”-era Iggy Pop with all the class of a fifth grader belching the alphabet. Even when they don’t rely on worthless gimmicks, the band’s sound—previously their saving grace—has changed, and not for the better. Whereas previous albums evoked...
...chief counsel on the matter. Giuliani told a state grand jury last year that while he recalled Kuriansky's briefing, he had no recollection of hearing about Kerik's relationship with the firm or its principals. (Kuriansky, whose office of investigations reported to the mayor in the Giuliani era, died in July before any discrepancy could be clarified...
...there are Australian traits that do, indisputably, come down to modern Australia from the vanished days of the bush, and even from the convict era. They are wound tightly into our social history. One of these is the value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a much paraded dislike of elitism. Mateship--essentially, male bonding--began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that...