Word: meshed
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...steadily absorbing read, all 400-plus pages of it. Recollecting his first day at a private boy's academy, Zaki remembers of a classroom: "A dead wasp lay on its back in a corner of the windowsill with its legs curled up. It had wandered in past the mesh and never found its way out." It's a muted metaphor not just for Zaki but for Pakistan as a whole. It's this kind of nuanced detail in The Wish Maker, moreover, that leaves you wishing for much more from Sethi, whose buzzing talent is unmistakable...
...calls home: a 20-square-foot portion of an apartment that he shares with 21 other men. For $167 a month, Lau gets the top bunk in what the government euphemistically calls a "bed space," or cubicle dwelling - a tiny rectangular area, partitioned by thin wooden slabs or steel mesh wire to safeguard the resident's belongings, barely large enough for a mattress...
...downturn - putting off dreams of a better life. Across Victoria Harbour from Hong Kong's central business district, in a neighborhood of bright neon signs and bustling vendors, 33-year-old Lai Man-law has been looking for a job for the past year while living in a mesh-wire 18-square-foot cage. "It's dirty and hot. There are cockroaches and bedbugs, and the air-conditioning doesn't work," he says...
...Republic.” Although the French have yet to issue an outright ban on wearing burqas in public, a bipartisan committee of 32 lawmakers has been dispatched to come up with ways to prevent women from donning the head-to-toe garments whose only aperture is veiled in mesh...
...presence in the House.” Her already entrenched roots in the House may promise stability for a position that has been characterized in recent years by a series of turnovers. “I think the appointment was made with the hope that she’ll mesh with the Cabot community and stay around for a long time,” Johnston said. Constantino—as well as her two children, fellow dining hall regulars—has already attained high visibility in Cabot even before assuming her new post, according to Hoyos. Such ties...