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...leave, Al-haj tells a story containing a typically Sufi rebuke to the authorities: A Sufi leader visits a distant village while he is fasting for Ramadan. When he arrives in the village, the people welcome him by offering a glass of milk. He drinks the milk, preferring to honor their hospitality rather than his own piety...
...stable is better, for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that provides milk. The parliament is worse than a stable.' MALALAI JOYA, female member of the Afghan parliament and longtime critic of fellow legislators whom she deems to be warlords. Joya was suspended after making the comment, in a television interview, that compared parliament to a stable...
...stable is better, for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that provides milk. The parliament is worse than a stable...
...YOUNGEST licensed pilot in the U.S. A few years later, brash aviator Robert Buck was a national hero. Dubbed the Schoolboy Pilot--he drank milk in flight and called his parents after every landing--Buck flew a 28-hour 1930 trip from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles, setting the junior transcontinental speed record, and made a record round trip to Havana in 13 hours. A chief pilot for TWA, where he worked from 1937 to 1974, Buck wrote such acclaimed books as North Star Over My Shoulder, a must- read for new pilots...
Atget was said to be short-tempered and eccentric, and in his 50s stopped eating anything except bread, milk and sugar. He and his wife, Valentine, a former actress, hung out with some of Paris' leading dramatists - though he left behind not a single portrait of friends or associates. One photo in the show gives a tiny insight into the photographer's world: Small Interior of a Dramatic Artist, which is actually Atget's own tidy, book-lined apartment...