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Tehelka is a delightful Urdu word, difficult to translate. It refers to that special kind of tumult provoked by a daring act, or a sensational piece of writing. And that's exactly the effect that was provoked in India's government this week by a group of young Indian journalists...
Ms. Melia is uncomfortable with NAMBLA's existence--that's obvious. But she's even more uncomfortable with what she contemptuously refers to, in quotation marks" as those "inalienable rights," such as free speech, that we citizens "stretch too far" for her taste.
This quote likely refers to the line in the Talmud (Megillah 7b) that is frequently used by gleeful college students who seek to justify self-destructive excesses through appeal to religious texts:
Rachel Martin's present for her ninth birthday came wrapped in silver spandex. The 5-ft.7-in. gift walked in on a red carpet, stripped off her floor-length black coat to reveal silver hip huggers and a matching tube top and sang, "I think I did it again/I made you...
Alfred Thomas, Loeb associate professor of the humanities, refers to Prague as a "fulcrum at the center of the European experience."