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...this, right?" the magic words. When someone in Washington makes that request and a journalist agrees to the deal, a blood oath has been signed, no matter how scurrilous or trivial the information involved. You don't break the oath or even hedge on it. You agree to stand outside the law respectfully, not "above" it, and to suffer the consequences. You go to jail to protect your source, if necessary. If you do not adhere to these tribal rules, other potential sources will surely notice and you will be considered unreliable. It is not an elegant system...
Wednesday’s night’s concert, attended by about 100 high-school students, was the second in a two-night stand for the band. The previous night, it played to an exclusively college-aged Summer School crowd...
...workload is so light. I do about two hours a week for this class,” says Asaro. Although the other students are no less intelligent, Asaro says that some were less “well-versed in poetry,” making it easier for him to stand...
...over 15 million, and the fate of those ruins is most uncertain in a city where one-quarter of the populace live in slums and one-third have no sanitation; city officials, understandably, have other priorities. Already, most of the ruins seen by Franklin have disappeared. Those that remain stand not in open countryside, but atop roundabouts or tucked in beside the high-rises and flyovers of South Delhi. They obscure the fairways of golf courses, provide a destination for joggers in the Lodi Garden, and serve as urinals or night shelters for landless Biharis and Afghan refugees...
...electoral defeat by the Congress Party, the Indian right has disintegrated into factionalism, split between those who continue to revile Pakistan and those, like BJP president Lal Krishna Advani, who think hatred as a political strategy has had its day. Last week a high court ordered Advani to stand trial for inciting violence in a speech before the Ayodhya mosque's destruction. Nowadays, however, he is more likely to exasperate his own party: on a visit to Pakistan last month, he praised its founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Brahma Chellaney, strategic studies professor at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy...