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...Mohsin Hamid is the author of the novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist
...sense that he takes the role seriously. "He's a throwback to what movie stars used to be," says Grant Heslov, who has been friends with Clooney since they met in an acting class in 1983 and is now his partner at their new film and TV production company, Smoke House. "You see him and you think, Wouldn't that be a great life? He seems like a man's man. He seems like you could meet him at a bar and have a chat with him and it would be easy. And all of that is true." Sid Ganis...
...workers, around 400 in all, sometimes live four to a room. It is freezing in the winter, stifling in the summer. Most of the workers are men. They cook their evening meals on small electric water heaters and, during summer and fall, after work they sit outside and smoke or play cards and drink beer; it's a hard life, and the workers find diversions wherever they can. One day last winter when our house was under construction, I noticed some Chinese characters scrawled in the dust underneath a windowsill. I couldn't read them so I called over...
...just before 9 pm. Like many of Korea's historical buildings, the ancient gate was guarded only until the early evening. At night, a security camera was in place to keep out intruders, although homeless people have often huddled in around the structure. But the gate didn't have smoke detectors, or a sprinkler system to combat a fire in the event that one broke...
Once a smoker himself, Bloomberg said he was able to quit only when he truly understood the consequences. "As I became more mature and started thinking, 'Do I want to live or not?' it was an easy decision." For those who want to smoke, however, he feels it should be their right, so long as they aren't harming others. "I happen to agree with those who think you have a right to kill yourself," he said...