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...this week, the title is about to turn a profit. "We're in a niche market," says David Parsley, the paper's editor. "We're not claiming we're going to destroy anybody." Perhaps, but the hefty Financial Times can hardly be pleased. As the Standard heads for higher ground, competition among the evening free sheets could get tough. In the coming months, London's transit companies are expected to award exclusive rights to distribute within the city's subway network and train stations. Both papers' executives are "hard nosed," says Panmure Gordon's DeGroote. "These guys are about...
...place as one of the fathers of modern African literature. It's a role that brings trouble along with honor. In 1977, Ngugi wrote I Will Marry When I Want, a play that critiques Kenya's neocolonial society. After it was performed, the theater was burned to the ground and Ngugi thrown in jail. He was released a year later - thanks to Amnesty International - with a new novel, Devil on the Cross, written on prison toilet paper. While in England to launch the book in 1982, he heard rumors that he would be arrested again if he went back...
...creep back in. The most striking manifestation of American miscalculation was the refusal of Iraqis to peacefully embrace the nascent democracy created for them by U.S. arms. Far from abating, violence in Iraq increased over time. Part of the problem was the insufficiency of U.S. boots on the ground. General Eric Shinseki turned out to have been right that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed to stabilize post-Saddam Iraq. Trying to do the job with around 135,000--roughly 1 American for every 210 Iraqis--exposed a part of the spectrum that...
...Naguib Mahfouz, who died last week at 94, was a true hero in this Islamophobic age, the sort of brilliant, embattled writer and public intellectual who has almost ceased to exist. Prolific and serene, Naguib-bey stood his ground, which was Egypt. He did not leave, even to collect his Nobel Prize. He wrote about growing up in Cairo, about movie stars, madmen, beggars, pashas, gods and religion. His bravest book is Children of the Alley, with its parable of Islam--banned in most Arab countries. Condemned to death in a fatwa issued by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, he continued...
...body, leaving little to be absorbed. Not so the mercury we pump into the skies. Smokestack mercury exists in either particle form--which falls relatively quickly back to earth--or aerosol form, which can travel anywhere around the globe. Either way, when it lands, trouble begins. On the ground or especially in the low-oxygen environment of the oceans, mercury is consumed by bacteria that add a bit of carbon to convert it to methylmercury, a metabolically stickier form that stays in the body a long time. That is bad news for the food chain, since every time a bigger...