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...Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid plain. For the clergy of the Phaya- gyi monastery, however, the dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as government troops raided the 206-year-old pagoda and arrested about 20 of its monks...
...begins one of Rudyard Kipling's most famous poems, which reads as if it were written for the British raj. In fact, this hortatory verse was addressed to Teddy Roosevelt with a clear message: having won the Spanish-American War of 1898, the U.S. should claim the Philippines as a colony. Thus Kipling, as author Christopher Hitchens dryly observes, was "John the Baptist to the age of American empire...
...Rudyard Kipling, describing the original Taj Mahal...
...budding superstar by reaching the semifinals; then losing to her seemed less shameful and ominous. Evert went on to Wimbledon, a tournament that had been her nemesis (she lost seven of ten finals) but a place steeped in the traditions she reveres. She loves to quote the phrase from Rudyard Kipling's If that is inscribed above the doors to Centre Court: "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same . . ." When Evert lost in the semifinals, the cheers were not for the victor of that match, Steffi Graf, but for the gallant...
Once upon a time there were many magazines for children, and they featured such artful writers as Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens. But today's children are too distracted by television to sit down and read. Right? Wrong. In the past two years alone, the number of children's publications tracked by the Educational Press Association of America has nearly doubled, from 85 to 160, bringing their total circulation to an impressive 40 million. Says Don Stoll, executive director of the EPAA: "There has been extraordinary activity in children's periodicals...