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While we will all be waiting to see if Obama lives up to the promise of the Nobel Peace Prize with the undertakings in motion, we should also hold ourselves accountable for “change” and make an impact—no matter how big or small—on some of the things we hope to improve. Whether it be donating time, money, or effort, giving philanthropic presents rather than materialistic ones will reap benefits for long after the holiday season has passed. While only time will tell if Obama is the “change...
...calls for new and smaller states ignited by the Andhra controversy, New Delhi has dialed back its support for Telangana, insisting that the matter now find a resolution through a vote in the Andhra Pradesh legislature. Given the current tumult, it's unclear when or how such a motion may go through. The political party headed by Rao, the Telangana separatist leader, was trounced both in recent state and national polls. His hunger strike - now ended - and the disturbances organized around it were likely an act of desperation of a movement shorn of much of its real political capital. "Having...
Scholars often worry whether a major motion picture distracts or taints an author’s works. Stillinger, who has written and edited multiple books on Keats, said the new attention to the poet has only had positive effects. “All this attention, all the reviews, all the people seeing it—it’s a great boost for Keats and the study of English poetry,” he said. “I don’t think many people outside of the undergraduate community would [otherwise] read his works...
That plot supposedly gelled with Headley's contributions. By late 2007, he had allegedly made three sets of "photographs, videos and oral descriptions" of targets in Mumbai, providing enough information to set the rest of the plan in motion. A native of Mumbai, Ansari, investigators said, returned from his LeT training in November 2007, found an apartment and was told by his LeT handlers to get a van driver's license. Ansari then allegedly scoped out more targets in Mumbai: a long list of prominent buildings from the U.S. consulate to the state legislature building. According to the official dossier...
...does on sites around the Web. (Naturally, you have to type the code to access the site.) Some other big names make the list: on the social news site Digg it expands all the comments in a given thread, and on MLB.tv, it lets you watch highlights in slow motion. The folks behind Konami Code Sites encourage you to try other sites too, in case some developer with an acute sense of video-gaming history inserted a surprise. (Read "Troubling Rise of Facebook's Top Game Company...