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...unappealing. "You can't live in Mumbai without seeing children begging at traffic lights and passing by slums on your way to work," says Shikha Goyal, a public relations executive who left halfway through the film. "But I don't want to be reminded of that on a Saturday evening." There's also a sense of injured national pride, especially for a lot of well-heeled metro dwellers, who say the film peddles "poverty porn" and "slum voyeurism...
...League’s “14-game tournament” comes out in full force today. Yes, all the schools not starting with P have already have already exchanged travel buddies, but the pace picks up now with four Ivy games on each Friday and Saturday night for the next six weeks...
...Harvard must aim for a strong start on its home court, as the Quakers are 0-10 when trailing at halftime but 4-0 when leading. Penn has won twelve of the last thirteen games against Harvard, but the Crimson will hope to reverse that trend this coming Saturday. Harvard will face the famed Princeton offense just 24 hours later. Known for their plethora of three-point attempts and the motion offense, the Tigers will bring a completely different style of play to the court. It is no surprise that in Princeton’s last game, seven different players...
...security measures that Iraqi authorities are undertaking for Saturday's provincial elections are extreme even by the standards of a war-battered country all too familiar with checkpoints, mazes of blast walls and periodic road closures. Iraqi authorities are orchestrating what amounts to a nationwide lockdown for the coming vote, which many Iraqi and U.S. officials view as a key test of both the country's security forces and the durability of the reduced levels of violence in Iraq. On election day, Iraq plans to seal its borders, close Baghdad International Airport and ban all but specially licensed vehicles from...
Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police officers will be on the streets on Saturday as up to 15 million registered voters head to the polls, mostly on foot, to cast ballots in what will decide a new makeup for 14 of Iraq's 18 provincial councils. Iraqi and U.S. officials have repeatedly warned that insurgents and militia elements may stage attacks on election day. With the vehicle ban, suicide bombers on foot and rocket or mortar fire pose the biggest threats. But so far there has been little sign that Iraq's militants are organizing a bloody show of force...