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...instead of sailing quietly into oblivion, Kaufman has decided to make waves. Most notably, he is challenging his Senate colleagues - and the Obama Administration - to get behind far tougher financial regulations than they have yet proposed, a move that has been unsettling to both bank lobbyists and White House aides. "I think most people know that I am really cranked up about this," Kaufman says with a smile...
It’s not as if the position of social secretary boasts any historical import—Rogers’ predecessor Amy Zantzinger wasn’t exactly a household name, and comparable oblivion likely awaits Rogers’ successor, Julianna Smoot. Rogers may be the first black social secretary, but it’s probably safe to say that, with the election of the first black president, African American children can aspire to higher callings than arranging tea parties for the First Lady...
...reason for the meltdown is money. Unlike most other motor sports, F1 is as much a battle between engineers as it is a race between drivers. Spurred on by a space-race mentality, F1 teams were research-and-developing themselves into oblivion. "The cost was growing beyond the point where you could have one or two teams," says McLaren's Whitmarsh...
...past, or what Mukherjee calls "the gratuitous tyranny of memory." In this case, it's more than a literary device. Flashbacks of Ritwik's dreadful childhood - hallucinations of his late abusive mother terrify him in his college room - animate the plot, driving Ritwik to seek a "snack of oblivion" in anonymous gay sex in public toilets. They also cause him to work through, on paper, his attitudes to his motherland, for interleaved with Ritwik's story is that of Miss Gilby, a peripheral character in Rabindranath Tagore's novel The Home and the World, whose life Ritwik reimagines...
...local people are damaging the site because of illegal diggings." In Swat, the Taliban have long attempted to destroy the Buddhist heritage of the region. In October 2007, as militants cemented their hold on the former tourist area, the Taliban dynamited the face of the Jehanabad Buddha into oblivion. The 23-foot-high carving of the seated Buddha, dating from the 7th century, is regarded as the second most important Gandhara monument after the Taliban-eradicated Bamiyan Buddhas. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...