Word: ganges
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...commander who now campaigns for peace and independence, warns that Kashmir's latest generation of militants might simply refuse to give up the gun. These young insurgents are not fighting for a cause, says Malik, but to avenge "a murdered father or brother, or a sister who's been gang-raped. It's much more difficult to stop people like this...
...between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl. The social cataclysms that have begun to rack Indonesia are felt here only as faraway echoes, until a boatload of survivors of gruesome atrocities in strife-torn Ambon, the capital of Maluku, washes up on Noli's shores. Soon afterward, a gang of jihadist rabble-rousers arrives, with a mandate from sinister elements in the army to create chaos as part of an ongoing plot to destabilize the nation in the aftermath of Suharto's fall. Within days the island's idyll is shattered, and neighbors who had long lived peacefully side...
...minorities. Of course, an 18-year-old who has managed to work 80-hour harvest weeks, while doing make-up schoolwork and teaching himself Latin is usually preferable to yet another Stuyvesant grad in the eyes of Harvard admissions. Then again, anyone who has raised himself out of the gang culture of an inner city to get a 1500 SAT score would likely gain admission to Harvard, too. Both applicants would fulfill that goal of affirmative action, benefiting from the diversity Harvard provides and adding to it, but the scenario makes brutally clear that affirmative action’s current...
...computer, glossy page by glossy page, so you can have the convenience of searching them online. It's incredibly useful--fortunes have been made on ideas not one-tenth as useful. But Google does not even bother to promote its catalog service on its front page. To the Google gang, it's just a clever...
...could pass for Raymond Chandler, but that's actually a line from Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (for PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2; $49.99), a literate, atmospheric video game about a good cop with very bad luck who gets tangled up with a bloody underworld gang war and a really good-looking lady assassin. The mood is pure noir: rain-splashed puddles, black overcoats and soulful cello solos. But it's not all artsy stuff. Max goes after his foes with a satisfying arsenal of chunky, high-caliber handguns, and when the fighting gets thick he busts...