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...Origin of the Sorceress?...
...dons of the Bombay underworld are unique in the annals of organized crime: they direct their operations in the city of their origin from outside the country?or "upstairs" as the underworld lingo has it? from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and, especially, from Pakistan. The most powerful criminal syndicate in India is headed by Shakeel and his godfather, Bombay native Dawood Ibrahim, son of a police constable, who now depend on the tender mercies of the Pakistani government for their continued existence...
...incident.” Shortly thereafter, approximately 80 students found flyers in their mailboxes that contained a swastika, anti-Semitic statements, and the text of the anonymous e-mail. That e-mail was later traced to first-year student Matthias Scholl, who denied knowledge of the flyers’ origin...
When asked by a graduate student of Ghanaian origin about his future plans for Ghana—Annan’s home country—after completing his U.N. term, Annan didn’t skip a beat: “I want to go back and be a farmer,” he quipped...
...first volume includes Astro Boy's origin as a Pinocchio-like, mechanical substitute for a scientist's dead son. Cared for mostly by his teacher, Mr. Mustachio, the perpetually darling, slightly androgynous little robot boy uses his powers of flight, super strength and rear-mounted machine guns to fight evil robots. The longest of the three self-contained stories, "The Hot Dog Corps," involves a queen whose robot spaceship pilots shoot down any rocket headed for the moon. Filled with the mischievous mayhem that boys love, but told with wit and imagination, the stories always have an underlying theme...