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...While telling a story of the fall of true love, Rushdie?blending myth and politics, magic and realism?also tells the story of the fall of Kashmir. One day, Pachigam's residents find a strange mullah in their midst, preaching hatred. How did this hatemonger slip into paradise? Because of the Indian army, which has been in the valley to keep the Pakistani army out. Over the years, this army has left behind piles of junk: "Then one day by the grace of God the junk began to stir. It came to life and took on human form...
...state security and spying. The charges were eventually dropped, but the government still denies the assertion. In June, Western diplomats and U.N. representatives gathered with aid workers in Kalma to discuss the government's failure to halt the rapes. Even as Sudanese officials contested claims of sexual violence, a slip of paper was handed to an aid worker. Another woman had been raped...
...time when Mohammad al-Obaidi didn't worry much about safety. As a barber in Baghdad's gritty working-class Washash neighborhood, al-Obaidi would spend his days styling hair--for Sunnis, Shi'ites, Christians, whoever showed up at his World of Haircuts barbershop. Evenings, he would slip off to play soccer with friends. These days, however, as Iraq plunges deeper into civil unrest, al-Obaidi, 27, a stout, personable man who sports a buzz cut, spends much of his time calculating how to stay alive, wondering whether the anonymous killers who now stalk the streets of Washash will come...
Both the Harvard University Map Collection (HUMC), housed in Pusey Library, and Houghton Library allow non-Harvard affiliates access to their centuries-old collections at no charge. At HUMC, researchers must identify themselves, fill out a map request slip, and inspect the map on site under the supervision of staff members. At Houghton, researchers must additionally present two forms of identification and a current address. Guards inspect all materials entering and leaving the reading room...
Mancall, Nye Barth, and Dingman all say they are opening, not closing, windows of opportunity. Once a student receives the slip of paper announcing their roommates, they say, the students themselves are responsible for determining what their freshman years will be like...