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...parents, both of whom are doctors, were celebrating New Year’s in New York when they received a call from the U.S. embassy informing them that their son had been jailed in Zimbabwe. “It was obviously very frightening,” his mother, Gita Chopra Bakshi, said in a phone interview. “My reaction was...my God, what have they done to him?” She said she and her husband flew to the Zimbabwean capital of Harare and, along with prominent Zimbabwean attorney Eric Matinenga, helped secure their son?...
...obviously very frightening," his mother, Gita Chopra Bakshi, said in a phone interview. "My reaction was...my God, what have they done...
...bottle' musical." The conked conqueror in "English" is a genteel Brit, Michael Bramleigh, who, after a head-bump, becomes Goto Schmidt, owner of Dresden's notorious night spot Klub "21." (Both roles are played, with an expert counterfeit of charm, by Brian d'Arcy James.) Goto and his girlfriend Gita Gobel (Emily Skinner) are forever threatened by the pompous Police Commissioner (Imus' man of a thousand voices Rob Bartlett), but even more by his tendency to snap from one personality to the other whenever he gets bopped on the kopf, and to forget one half of his personality when...
...that have perplexed and confounded humankind throughout the ages” in an intensive three-quarter sequence. Both programs include works from great writers and thinkers such as Shakespeare and Descartes, while Stanford’s program has a more international bend, including texts such as the Koran, Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana. The programs also put a premium on teaching quality by incorporating small weekly seminars with faculty. Harvard should work to develop a similar program...
...sugarcane, with liners bound for Cape Town and Colombo. You might think, to read some of imperialism's apologists, that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced a belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans...