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When posted to Kabul, most people dress like they're on a mountaineering expedition. Rory Stewart, on the other hand, gets fitted out on Savile Row. Settling into a tattered armchair in the Afghan capital's Gandamak bar-named after the battlefield where British troops were defeated by the Afghans in 1842 during the first Anglo-Afghan war-the Eton and Oxford alumnus looks and sometimes sounds like an unreconstructed colonial nawab. He clasps his hands behind his head, exposing a pair of malachite cufflinks that glitter against gleaming white cuffs. "The secret to a good suit," he muses...
...opposed to a development project which says 'we don't like your traditional culture and we want to change it.' That's not the way you are going to win Afghans over." And that's hardly the voice of an old-school colonial, whatever impression those Savile Row suits may give...
...come to the U.S. from South Korea with his parents in 1992 when he was 8, first to Detroit and eventually to Centreville, Va., a suburb of Washington, where they owned a dry-cleaning business. The family looked American Dream--y: they lived in a tidy cream row house with a vegetable plot in back where they grew lettuce and tomatoes. The parents were quiet, their English limited, but they worked hard and saw their daughter Sun-Kung head off to Princeton as an economics major, their son to Virginia Tech to major in English...
...players.” Big Green junior Kristen Barry was one of those strong players. Matching a career high with six goals, Barry overshadowed the Crimson’s Schoen, who had an impressive five scores to lead Harvard. After playing three road games in a row, the Crimson will return to Harvard Stadium this Saturday afternoon still looking for its first league win. Its opponent, Columbia, is coming off of a 13-8 win over Lehigh yesterday. “Saturday is a must-win,” Martin said. “We need to beat Columbia...
...rafters with chatting students, most in orange or maroon shirts or hoodies bearing the Virginia Tech logo. The rafters themselves were hung with banners from previous years' basketball victories, and pictures of famous Hokie players from years past. State Senator John Edwards, whose district comprises Blacksburg, worked the front row, shaking hands with U.S. Senators John Warner and Jim Webb and most of the state's U.S. House members...