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...Pakistan as a haven for India's Muslims in 1947, the multicultural and multiracial Adventures was even regarded as vaguely suspect. "It reminded Pakistanis of a cultural identity that undercut their religious one," says Farooqi. "It needed to be ignored." But Farooqi, thankfully, could not ignore it. After a stint in journalism in Karachi, he moved to Canada in 1994 and, while dabbling in children's fiction, set up the Urdu Project, an online journal of translations and literary criticism. Then, on a wintry night in 1999, Farooqi says that a "horse-headed gent" and an "elephant-eared lady" - figures...
...water in under 50 minutes, Davis again began to sweat profusely and suffered from a mild case of overactive bladder syndrome. AFN: Diagnosed with acute hyponatremia, a condition marked by electrolyte imbalances, priapism, and low blood sodium levels. Briefly hospitalized. ANALYSIS OF RESULTS After AFN’s stint in Mount Auburn Hospital, the study was aborted. Planned but unperformed experiments included playing “45:33” while engaging in underwater combat, dining in fine restaurants, and chopping vegetables for a winter stew. Post-study interviews resulted in similar statements from both test subjects, who noted that...
...things can be different.TALE OF TWO PASTSAmaker began his collegiate career as a player at Duke, under the tutelage of coach Mike Krzyzewski, starting all four years with the Blue Devils and earning national Defensive Player of the Year honors his senior season. Following a nine-year assistant coaching stint under Coach K, he moved on to Seton Hall and, in his years there, led the program to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2000 . The following year, Amaker brought in a recruiting class that ESPN ranked second nationally. These accomplishments become all the more significant when contrasted with Harvard?...
...Toyota Corolla when she saw Al Gore ’69’s “An Inconvenient Truth” over the summer. Perhaps the campus’s most venerable Prius owner is former University President Derek C. Bok, the political scientist who served a second stint in Mass. Hall last year on an interim basis. He replaced economist Lawrence H. Summers, whose controversial leadership style was occasionally mentioned in the same breath as his choice of wheels—a black chauffeured Lincoln Town Car. His successor, Drew G. Faust, owns a Honda Accord, though...
Gautam Varma was ready to take the next step. With a degree in computer engineering from Purdue University and a few years working for Motorola in Chicago, Varma, 27, felt a stint in grad school would help him move up into management. So last year he applied to a couple of U.S. schools and to the Indian School of Business (ISB), a six-year-old institution in the southern city of Hyderabad that has academic ties to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the London Business School. He was thrilled...