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DAHUK NINEVEH ARBIL SULAYMANIYAH TA'MIM NAJAF WASIT DIYALA MUTHANNA SALAHADDIN ANBAR QADISYAH KARBALA BABIL MAYSAN DHIQAR BASRA Kirkuk Mosul Arbil Nasiriyah Baqubah Najaf Sulaymaniyah Karbala Hillah Samarra Diwaniyah Fallujah Ramadi Tikrit Tall 'Afar Kut Samawah Faisaliya Basra Amarah...
...Teacher Mim Bahadur Khada, 28, tells me from his hospital bed in the provincial capital Nepalgunj how 20 Maoists surrounded his house in Surket to the northwest, tied his hands behind his back and demanded $170, his annual salary. They also said he should tear up the curriculum and start teaching "practical" education classes, such as giving instructions on how to sow potato seeds or repair a corn thresher. When Khada refused, they kicked him, shattered his legs with a stick packed in a rubber pipe and whipped him with a bicycle chain before leaving him for dead. "They told...
...Sioux certainly deserves that, if only as a tribute to reckless originality. A stranger tale and an odder telling would be hard to confect. Vincent Castleton, 43, an English banker in New Orleans, has married Marguerite Benoir, also known as Mim or Mimi to the handful of people on earth she regards as equals. These include most of the Benoirs, an impossibly rich and haughty French clan whose members call themselves the Sioux, perhaps as a tribute to their own ferocity. Mim, in her mid-20s, has led a luxurious but troubled life. Her first marriage, to Cousin Georges Benoir...
DIED. Marie Rambert, 94, grande dame of the British ballet; of a stroke; in London. After dancing with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where she worked with Nijinsky, the volatile Polish-born teacher in 1926 formed Ballet Rambert, Britain's first ballet company. There the exuberant "Mim" nurtured such choreographers and dancers as Anthony Tudor, Frederick Ashton and Agnes de Mille...
...reason is that Mr. Mim is sensitive and a little ambivalent about his SQ. He knows with the intuitive self-consciousness of the upwardly mobile that occupation, education, ethnic background and the concepts of social identity and life-style also count. Of course money talks. Indeed it whistles, hums and croons through the tangled switchboard of class lines that bind the conflicting emotions most Americans have about their place in an open, competitive society. What money says is "This way to the good life," not good as in Plato, but good as in "a good house in a good neighborhood...