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...Afterwards, a shop owner, overhearing me complain on the phone about my treatment, invited me to his home for lunch. "The army is disrespectful to us," he said. "They take away our young men and beat them for no reason. We are Pakistanis, but they treat us like foreigners." And so, in his opinion, did the central government. "None of the work on the port has gone to people from Gwadar," he added. "They are spending billions of rupees on it, but they have not even built us a proper hospital." Like the children playing cricket, he seemed to consider...
...already penned seven works of nonfiction, says writing is an escape. "Writing relaxes me," he told Time. "It's what comes easiest." Known for his around-the-clock approach to his day job, he finds time to write early in the morning and during Rome's notoriously relaxed lunch hour. Reviews of his new book have been good, and just 24 hours after its release last week, a second printing was ordered. Veltroni cites Philip Roth and Ian McEwan as his favorite contemporary authors. But he also cites a more risqué name, Arthur Schnitzler, the Austrian writer who explored...
...weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to have attended a small lunch for General Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President George H.W. Bush. General Scowcroft described the two broad historic themes of American foreign policy--call them traditionalism vs. transformationalism, or the realists vs. the idealists. The twin poles are represented by John Quincy Adams, who famously said the U.S. "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy," and Woodrow Wilson, who believed that America was a shining city on a hill and that it was our national destiny to be evangelists for democracy. While that...
...don’t despair quite yet: life outside of Harvard Yard isn’t so bad after all. It’s true that you will often have to leave a little sooner to meet a friend for lunch, or walk a little further to make it to the T, but you will quickly discover that living away from the hustle and bustle of the Yard can be a great experience. Here are ten reasons to love life in exile from the Yard...
...having so-and-so for lunch," he'd say. "I think you'll enjoy him." Sometimes we wouldn't, but Len's boundless energy and appetite for fun gave him the capacity to enjoy almost anyone and anything. He would find the secret amusing corner of the most difficult personality; he roared with laughter at books with odd titles-his collection began with a volume called Altar Linen: Its Care and Use, although his favorites were Underwater Sport on a Small Income; Dumps, A Plain Girl; and that handy cookbook Be Bold With Bananas...