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...report that, of the early-days triumvirate, only Powers lived to lay hands upon the world championship trophy. Life is not fair...
...Genius Factory,” the first book by David A. Plotz ’92, is probably the best lay-audience book about sperm ever written. It’s hardly a generic discussion of the male gamete, though, because—well, not all sperm make...
...Tanweer, such actions may just confirm their diagnosis of the ills of Western society. The boys on the street may be bewildered by his actions, but they are not slow to speculate what motivated him. One young man in Beeston thought that the roots of Tanweer's rage lay in "the persecution of Muslims worldwide" and the slaughter of innocents in Palestine and Iraq. "Wouldn't you want to fight if you saw your brotherhood, children and babies attacked?" he said. That view is not limited to Leeds. In Southall Broadway, west London, Sarfraz Hussain, 24, helps his uncle...
...Europe will still be the center of gravity [in 10b], but only in as much as it genuinely was the dominant continent for most of the three centuries after 1648,” Ferguson said in an e-mail, “I’ll lay more emphasis on warfare, empires and economics...
...18th and early 19th centuries, there was one thing that astounded all visitors to New Delhi: the ruins. For miles in every direction, half-collapsed and overgrown, robbed and reoccupied, and neglected by all, lay the remains of 600 years of trans-Indian imperium. Hammams (steam baths) and palaces, thousand-pillared halls and mighty tomb towers, empty temples and half-deserted Sufi shrines?there seemed to be no end to the litter of the ages. "The prospect towards Delhi, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with the crumbling remains of gardens, pavilions, and burying places," wrote British...