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...Yann Martel's inspired novel Life of Pi is at its core a record of survival?and quite a record it is. Martel's protagonist, a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel, not only endures 227 days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but does so while sharing a lifeboat with a 200-kilogram tiger, which regards his shipmate as a tasty sea ration. More than mere physical endurance, however, Life of Pi is concerned with the difficult perseverance of the human spirit. The tiger is a threat to Pi's body, but then becomes...
...Union for Democratic Rights, most Hindus arrested for rioting were released on bail within days. In the first hearing in July, a judge in Lunawada dismissed the case for lack of evidence?as, in fact, he probably had to. "First the police refuse to file proper complaints," explains Amrish Patel, a member of Jan Sangharsh Manch (Forum for People's Struggle), a group that promotes Hindu-Muslim amity. "Then the police don't investigate properly. There is no rule of law for the Muslims...
...hardest part about Ec 10 section for TF Sheila R. Patel ’98 and her students is waiting until section is over to mock total freakshow Franzsz J. Geisteswissenschaften ’03. “He sounds like Igor: ‘More brains, Sheila? Supply and demand, master?’” said section cut-up Elisa H. Hyatt ’05. “No, it’s more like Peter Lorre,” argued Joan G. Hunter ’04. Patel, who came upon students doing impressions...
...year in the position; in Seattle. Claiming the move was part of restructuring that he designed, Belluzzo announced plans to stay with the company through September and oversee the transition. SENTENCED. MARK STROMAN, 32, Texas stoneworker convicted of capital murder for shooting Indian-born gas station owner Vasudev Patel last October, to death; in Dallas. Stroman blamed his actions on a post-Sept. 11 rage. He is also charged with gunning down a Pakistani and wounding a Bangladeshi in separate incidents...
...seminars I went to, it was definitely the most packed,” Patel said, with students and auditors taking advantage of shopping period to participate in a discussion in the suddenly more timely class...