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...Barghouti to withdraw. His candidacy would have offered the Palestinian electorate a serious choice between contending views within the leading political organization over how to pursue their national aspirations, pitting a candidate favoring the armed intifada (Barghouti) against one favoring diplomacy (Abbas). Intead, Barghouti's withdrawal swept under the rug the profound divisions at the heart of Fatah, in the finest tradition of Arafat. And, like his predecessor, Abbas will be expected to be all things to all parties, with the al-Aqsa Brigade's endorsement serving as a rather heavy item of political of baggage shackled to his wrist...
...Ghosting: A Memoir (Canongate; 273 pages), a meditation on literary identity and a surprisingly generous love letter to the person who reaped praise and prestige from her labors while keeping her in salaried obscurity. (Discreetly, she refers to him only as "Tiger," after the lifelike tiger-skin rug that adorned his lavish Soho office.) In 1981, Tiger hired Erdal, then an editor and translator on the east coast of Scotland, to develop Russian authors for his Quartet Books. She found him to be demanding, impetuous and thoroughly charming, with a child's enthusiasm and an immigrant's fractured English...
Amit S. Patel ’07 sat on a rug tapping the tabla, a pair of Indian drums. Patel accompanied Om L. Lala ’06 and Rajiv Venkataramanan ’08 as they sang a bhajan to Shiva, a song they had learned while children in the same Hindu Saturday school. As the beat got faster, the whole room clapped along in rhythm...
From a distance, the puzzle resembles a black-and-white Persian rug or the tile floor of a mosque. Barely even recognizable as a crossword, it makes for an interesting piece of art and a great conversation piece. “It’s what decorates our room,” says roommate Kelly Chan ’08. But owning your very own “World’s Largest Crossword” has its downsides...
...party room, one of thousands of virtual rooms that players can visit in the new Habbo Hotel, an animated virtual chat world for teens. Dressed in a pink knit cap and matching tank top, Inugirl makes small talk with newcomers while guests flirt, dance and admire the bearskin rug and snazzy decor in her brightly colored crib. Launched in Finland in 2000 by two university students, Habbo Hotel now has 2.2 million monthly visitors worldwide, according to the site. The U.K. version, at habbohotel.co.uk, opened in February 2001 and has 11.5 million users. Other big sites include Spain's with...