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...cold war is long over, and at 72, he has written a searing, startling novel that sweeps through much of the 20th century and up to the present conflict with Iraq, and it may shock his devoted fans. Absolute Friends (Little, Brown; 455 pages) is a work of fist-shaking, Orwellian outrage. "At the end of the cold war, people said I was finished," Le Carre says with quiet determination. "I felt I was really just beginning...
...from all but his most immediate family. The divide deepened in 1989, when separatist rebels, incensed at India's heavy-handed rule of its only Muslim-majority state, began an uprising in the meadows of the Kashmir valley to the east. India suppressed the insurgency with an iron fist and reinforced its border with hundreds of thousands of troops; Pakistan sent money first to support the separatists and then to bankroll bands of jihadis who were determined to claim all of Kashmir for Muslim Pakistan...
...showed off his “running man” and “sprinkler” with fellow members of the Harvard Band, but he said his favorite move is the “’Livin’ on a Prayer’ fist.” Hetrick demonstrated, striking a pose with his knees bent, head angled downward, and his right fist straight...
...Patitucci’s Undergraduate Council campaign, during which he postered half the Yard with a photograph of himself in a Speedo. Later that spring, Patitucci became an icon on the intramural circuit after breaking his arm in the climax of a softball game and then passionately pumping his fist in a symbolic act of determination. And Patitucci quickly became well-known in the freshman party scene, as the crazy kid who carried a traveling bar in his backpack...
...yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact, she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess" ... Presents for their daughter are more of a problem to the Duke & Duchess of York than to the parents of most three-year-olds. For example, on their tour of Australia...