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...when our lives would change: “Who will be first to get married?” and “Where will we be in ten years?,” we’d ask ourselves. One friend wanted to grow up to be like the women she’d seen at O’Hare airport–dressed for success, attaché case in hand. In our rural area, a career spent in business suits and first-class was unknown and therefore, impressive...
Taborsky holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree with first-class honors from McGill University in Canada...
...After New York’s 9/11, Madrid’s 3/11, and London’s 7/7, Bombay will now remember 7/11: Starting at 6:24 p.m. on Tuesday July 11, Bombay was rocked by seven successive, devastating blasts. Timers detonated bombs left in overhead luggage racks in first-class train compartments, ripping apart whole carriages, killing over 200 commuters, and injuring close to 800.By all accounts, Bombay has fought back. If terror attacks are meant, above all else, to cripple the lives and spirits of common people, then Bombay provided a fitting response—trains...
...This songbird is what the terrorists aimed to silence. That's why they targeted the first-class compartments. They could have achieved a higher kill ratio if they had chosen the even more crowded second-class carriages, but their victims would have been poorer. So the casualties were from the great striving middle class, not rich enough to afford a car and driver, but enriched enough by Singh's reforms to commute first class: stockbrokers, small-time diamond dealers, software technicians...
...span of 11 minutes, seven bombs ripped through the packed first-class carriages of commuter trains in Bombay last Tuesday. The force of the explosions split the carriages open and hurled passengers onto the tracks. Bruised, broken and bloodied, many made it to the hospitals. Many others who were in the centers of the carriages ended up at the morgue. More than 180 were killed and 700 wounded in India's worst terrorist attack since...