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...returned to England after five years and resigned his commission. "He had changed," his friend Jacintha recalls. "He seemed more aloof, an unhappy sort of stranger. Whatever happened to him in Burma must have embittered him very much." Blair described the feeling he brought home as "an intolerable sense of guilt." He had been a petty tyrant in the service of what he saw as a vast system of exploitation. He could recognize in the flogged Burmese troublemakers a likeness to himself as a schoolboy, whipped and cowed by the same imperious forces. A childhood conviction had been confirmed...
DARTMOUTH 24, PENN 24: It's either a tie here, or a tie for the Ivy title I'd rather see a tie here. Hey.c'mon. stranger things have happened...
Rushdie introduces true occurrences with the bemused air of someone who finds them much stranger than fiction. Perhaps the only way to understand bizarre reali ties is to make up stories about them. The fact of brutal crackdowns on dissent in Pakistan gives rise to a tale. During his years in power, Iskander creates a Federal Security Force and appoints as its head a man with appropriate powers: "The clairvoyancy of Talvar Ulhaq enabled him to compile exhaustive dossiers on who-was-bribing-whom, on conspiracies, tax evasion, dangerous talk at dinner par ties, student sects, homosexuality, the roots...
James Q. Wilson shattuck Professor of Government is no stranger to gossip about high-level administrative positions. When he was an up-and-coming 39-year-old scholar in 1970 for instance. Wilson's name was circulated in lists of candidates for the Harvard presidency. And shortly after that, Wilson was reported to be one of the leading candidates to replace Dean of the Faculty John T. Dunlop the labor economist who left to join the Nixon Administration...
Chandra's then astonishing answer: the collapse would continue, creating even stranger objects whose interiors contained matter unlike anything on earth. Absurd, sniffed Sir Arthur Eddington, Britain's most eminent astronomer, who mockingly said that Chandra's equations pointed to a star whose surface gravity would be so powerful as to preclude even the escape of light. Today the study of black holes, as such invisible stars are now called, along with kindred neutron stars, is one of the liveliest topics in astrophysics. Chandra, who came to the U.S. in 1936, says wryly of the belated recognition...