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...impose not just British laws and technology on India but also British Christian values. That way India would be not only ruled but redeemed. Local laws that offended Christian sensibilities were abrogated. The burning of widows, for example, was banned. One of the company directors, Charles Grant, spoke for many when he wrote of how he believed that Providence had brought the British to India for a higher purpose: "Is it not necessary to conclude that our Asiatic territories were given to us, not merely that we might draw an annual profit from them, but that we might diffuse among...
...about who had most influenced them. Michael Bloomberg, the innovative mayor of New York, paid tribute to Red Auerbach, the great coach of the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s who broke the color bar in the NBA. Elizabeth Edwards, the courageous wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, spoke movingly about her cancer, saying she accepted the TIME 100 honor "only as a representative of all the men and women who are facing diagnoses like mine, and who continue to fight." NBC News anchor Brian Williams spoke of his heroes of broadcast journalism, Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer...
...recent foot patrol in south Ghazaliya at least two Sunnis who spoke with American soldiers said they had recently moved from Huriya. That neighborhood north of Ghazaliya is dominated by the Mahdi Army, Moqtada Sadr's Shi?ite militia that has been pushing Sunnis out of their homes in Baghdad. Those refugees, like other Sunnis in Ghazaliya, said they welcomed the American presence but did not trust the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi Army. The wall is only as effective - and as fair - as the men guarding it. Sunnis must now pass through Iraqi Army checkpoints on their...
...Refections 2007,” held in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School, was a collaboration between ten Asian organizations on campus. The banquet featured Boston-based band Phil Good and Emerson College journalism professor Paul U. Niwa, who spoke about the difficulties of being an Asian-American man and urged his audience to “grab a samurai sword and chop down the bamboo ceiling...
...After being arrested and forced to leave the country by a government that has little tolerance for journalists, TIME's Africa bureau chief Alex Perry spoke to Ncube by telephone at St. Mary's Cathedral in Bulawayo...