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...Throughout these larger histories, Sardar weaves in personal stories. The fact of his new fatherhood becomes a path into an essay on the British rewriting of India's past. The shocking discovery that his paternal grandfather fought for the British in the Second Afghan War prompts a disinterment of the long chain of cause and effect that has led to Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan becoming one of the world's most unstable regions. There are genuinely illuminating sections, such as the one on the distinction between Deobandi and Barelvi Muslims and how an appreciation...
...like the one that sent him to a hospital on Tuesday during the celebratory Capitol lunch for the newly inaugurated President, he is generally doing well. And they add that Kennedy is fully engaged in the effort to pass universal health-care legislation - a cause for which he has fought for decades, and one in which he will play a crucial role as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (See pictures of Obama's Inauguration...
...that anything is possible, said the Apache from Arizona. Some people brought with them mementos of those who could not come. Jenny Allen, a 38-year-old fundraiser from West Virginia, wore a laminated picture of her great-aunt, an elegant lady in a double strand of pearls who fought for civil rights years ago. "Peggy Ewing Waxter, 1904-2007," Allen said. "She would have loved this day." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
...they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sanh...
...Wang then told his volunteers to do what few mortal people could do: think about something else. For the next 40 minutes, while the PET scanner hummed, the subjects fought to close their minds to the thoughts of food in any way they could, though they were required to keep their eyes open. "We tried to make it a real-life experience," says Wang. "It's like being in a buffet line, only it lasts a lot longer." (See the top 10 food trends...