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...complex story very coherently. A bewildering number of institutions - Pakistani security forces, the American consulate in Karachi, Pearl's newspaper, even the FBI - turned the Pearl home into a command center from which they pursued any number of leads, both frustrating and promising, generally in an optimistic and cooperative spirit...
...spark private interest by plowing municipal money into improvements such as a minor-league baseball stadium. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun, who has brought back old traditions like the circus sideshow and invented new ones like the Mermaid Parade, reflects the population's pragmatism: "We went far on spirit alone, but there's only so much you can do without multimillion-dollar investment...
...realized what I was seeing: a 1930s movie in contemporarily grungy garb. And I don't mean that as a compliment to Knocked Up - that it has a clever plot or dazzling dialogue. Long ago I wrote a book on Hollywood screenwriters (the 1974 Talking Pictures), and in that spirit I have one or two tuts...
...liquor arm United Spirits, the biggest whisky maker in India, and the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) have been doing a brisk trade in bitter remarks, each charging the other with unfairly blocking its exports. Hardly the spirit, given that "scotch whisky is enjoying its best growth prospects for a generation," according to Alberto Gavazzi, global brands director for Diageo, the producer of Johnnie Walker...
Vijay Rekhi, president of United Spirits, counters that the Europeans have put up an "invisible barrier" to trade by refusing to even call the stuff made in India by the name whisky. Most Indian whiskies are made from sugarcane molasses, but if they aren't made from grain and matured for a minimum of three years, they can't be labeled whisky in the E.U. "You can call them Indian spirit, you can call them rum," says Rick Connor, director of public affairs for Chivas Bros. "We do object to calling them whisky." That definition, Rekhi says, blocks UB from...