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...receiving end of decades of such politicking and social bias, the Muslim community - which forms 13.4% of India's population - remains impoverished and is increasingly alienated. A commission instituted by the ruling Congress Party-led government found Muslims underrepresented in government jobs and faring badly in social indicators like household income and literacy. "When you have a community that has been brutalized, it is inevitable that there will be a pool of ready recruits," says political commentator Manoj Joshi, noting the anti-Muslim riots in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in 1993 and similar ones in Gujarat...
...tour was the idea of John Healey, 48, an ex-Franciscan monk and Peace Corps worker who heads the American office of Amnesty that goes after left- and right-wing oppressors, won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize, but remains little known in the U.S. ''We're a household name in Europe. I want a grassroots- level recognition here too,'' Healey explains. At first he had trouble getting artists. Many were ''aided'' out. ''Six weeks ago I had just about decided it was easier to deal with dictators than rock 'n' rollers,'' said Healey with a grin. A few acts were...
...Mirwais' own wartime travels took him to Kuwait, where he opened a doner kebab restaurant, and learned that young people were bored with their household fare, and expressed their worldliness by eating things their mother's couldn't cook. So after serving Turkish cuisine in Kuwait, he turned to serving soul food in the erstwhile stamping ground of the Taliban...
...been no outcry from officials in those cities. That may reflect their knowledge that gay tourists spend some $65 billion in the U.S. annually. "It's a tremendous market to tap into," says Matthew DeGuire of Travel Unlimited, a retail travel agency in Columbia, South Carolina. "Most gay households are two-income families with no kids, and they have a lot more disposable income than a typical household." Indeed, a recent marketing survey found that 97% of American gay men and women took vacation in the past year, compared to just 64% of the general population...
...chum, How did you acquire such an expansive vocabulary? -Joseph Gerard O'Brien, Newark, DelawareTeaching! It really is from teaching. And also I grew up in a household where my mother was constantly correcting my grammar, and still does. And I love, love, love, love the written word. I'll re-read books, I'll reread passages from books over and over and over, because I just love the way words look on the page. And I have to say as a teacher, I always wanted to raise the bar for my students. I wanted them to wonder and then...