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...Worse are the silent, empty homes filling so many neighborhoods. Sometimes, from the skeleton of a house, a homeowner wearing a surgical mask quietly appears. But more often than not there is no one at all.The city suffers in other parts. Not all the streetlights work. The potholes have somehow gotten worse. Homeowners still worry about theft. They don’t want the tools they use by day to resurrect their homes to be stolen at night.Out in the gentrified sections of the city, far away from Fountain’s home, little seems changed from before Katrina?...
...publicly and rarely privately-and then he said, "My favorite poem, my favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote, 'Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart,'" he paused, his voice quivering slightly as he caressed every word. The silence had deepened, somehow; the moment was stunning. "'Until ... in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace...
...Strings Attached? A generous prince left Harvard a hefty sum. But might his ties to the Arab world affect this gift?” The implication is that by accepting a gift for Islamic studies, Harvard may become beholden to the wrong sorts of people—perhaps even somehow furthering the cause of terrorism. The Harvard Salient, which is funded by the “conservative” lobby and eschews journalistic neutrality, mocks the stated purpose of the gift to promote better understanding of Islam as “blithe and childish,” saying...
...Back to Basics Re "The New India, and the Old One" [March 13]: I concur with essayist Alex Perry that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached from the person in the street. In day-to-day India-with an entrenched, corrupt bureaucracy, only an intermittent supply of clean water and millions of people lacking basic health care and sanitation-the new international developments seem impossibly far removed. India requires first the basics of life and then transparency...
...Putatunda Pune, India Back to Basics Re "The new India, and the old one" [March 13]: I concur with essayist Alex Perry, that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached from the person in the street. In the day-to-day India - with an entrenched, corrupt bureaucracy, only an intermittent supply of clean water and millions of people lacking basic health care and sanitation - the new international developments seem impossibly far removed. India requires first the basics of life...