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Twelve miles (19.3 km) and several tax brackets away is Indian Hill, an East Side suburb that is home to those fiscally conservative swing voters the Obama campaign would like to win over. A drive around Indian Hill's winding country lanes leaves a visitor thinking it's less a town than a state park with sprawling manors. Bush beat John Kerry here by better than 3 to 1, and McCain and Palin have each dropped by in the past few months to raise money. But just a few weeks before the 2008 election, the yard signs anchored...
...than three decades of critical acclaim and many visits to the best-seller list, Hillerman had a favorite anecdote, often repeated. It was about his first agent, who told him that if he wanted to have success as a writer, he'd have to get rid of "all that Indian stuff...
...past four years, the Harvard South Asian Association has aimed to educate audiences about Indian classical dance with its productions of “Kalpanam.” This Saturday in Lowell Lecture Hall, the show will also include a taste of Bharatha Natyam, a classical South Indian form of dance drama. “What this show holds is not only new for us on campus, but marks a new trend in the production of the dance form globally,” says Amrapali Maitra ’10, who directed last year’s performance...
...While there have been several attempted and successful suicide bombings on the fringes of Kabul against Afghan and NATO army convoys, this is the first attack in the city since July 7, when a suicide bomber in a vehicle set off explosives outside the gates of the Indian embassy, killing at least 60 people, including an Indian diplomat. Some observers have warned that the mounting violence in the capital may in fact get worse in the coming weeks, following recent changes at the Interior Ministry, which historically been riddled with corruption. The replacement of the former Minister of the Interior...
...long troubled northeastern corner of India is seeing an escalation of violence even as the rest of the country contends with a series of terror bombings over the last few weeks. On Thursday, a series of co-ordinated bomb blasts in the Indian state of Assam - nine of them detonated in four cities in the span of 15 minutes - killed at 61 people and injured at least 300. The question now is whether the perpetrators of the attacks were regional separatists or a wider network of radical jihadists...