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...interns often outnumber regular staff. A little grade school math and a rough estimate of 15 a Senator and seven per Representative puts about 4,500 interns on Capitol Hill. In monetary terms, this is a staggering indicator of our democracy’s health. I work around 40 hours per week gratis, and will be here for eight weeks. At $15 per hour, a normal summer wage at home or around Harvard, my time is worth $4,800. Throw in $2,400 for Georgetown housing (I’d live for free at home), and my contribution shoots...
...hour passed, the wheels of her chair locked in a circle of adoring people...
...bigger trucks, their drivers standing up to grind their boots onto the gas pedals, could not get above 40 miles per hour. One of them bogged down in the roadside sand, another broke down, and running soldiers leapt into the thin cover of other trucks as large-caliber bullets shattered windshields and bored through sheet metal, as dead and dying trucks began to block the road...
...Islamic terrorists - though not al-Qaeda. India is home to a Muslim insurgency in Kashmir, and earlier in the day militants killed eight people and injured 30 in five separate bomb attacks in the capital, Srinagar. And while no one said those same insurgents carried out Tuesday's rush-hour train attacks in Bombay - which police said killed at least 130 people and injured 260 - security sources told TIME they suspected a shadowy alliance of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) working with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movemement of India (SIMI...
...rise. All the bombs were detonated between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on the Western line, which runs from Bombay's central station, Churchgate, through which a million commuters pass every day. Typically, a Bombay train carries around 4,500 people - three times its official capacity - and at rush hour, each carriage would have been stuffed, with passengers hanging onto doors and sitting on roofs. For terrorists looking to maximize carnage, it was an all too tempting target...