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...attended Harvard Business School, I’ve stopped daring to mention that I study at Harvard. The last time someone wheedled that out of me I was met with guffaws and the kind of belly-laughter you’d associate with a person slipping on a stray banana-peel on the dirt-strewn pavements of Delhi (yes, that’s considered funny here). Having my work-desk right outside the office of Jug Suraiya—Dubyaman’s proud creator, and associate editor at the Times of India—doesn’t help...
...miserable time. Clark wrote he was as "wet and as cold in every part as I ever was in my life." Lewis had calculated that the 33-member party needed four deer a day to feed itself. The hunters killed only five deer over 11 days, plus a stray horse, a dozen grouse, a duck and a coyote...
...Thai army deployed troops and heavy artillery near the border. Burmese soldiers, meanwhile, massed in support of the Wa and for an offensive against other ethnic rebels?fighting that threatened to spill into Thailand. As Bangkok and Rangoon traded accusations, soldiers traded mortar fire. Villagers were evacuated as stray rounds rained down on Thai soil. No civilians were harmed?until last week. Farther south in Ratchaburi province, three gunmen in military fatigues fired automatic weapons at a pickup truck full of schoolchildren. Three students were killed and 12 wounded. "It was like something out of the West Bank," says Panitan...
...This is extraordinary writing?tender and wise, stripped of the inessential. Its power rivals those apocalyptic scenes in A Fine Balance and is all the more impressive, given the intimate scale. Family Matters needs to stray no further than the Vakeel clan and their apartments to find actors and stage for an affecting drama...
...Taliban to pack explosives around the statues. The Taliban warned that if he refused, he would be shot. It was a threat that Hussain, a Shi'ite Muslim hated by the Sunni Taliban, took seriously. Earlier, a Taliban fighter had gunned down Hussain's two boys like stray dogs crossing a field, and gloated, "Anyone who kills a Hazara goes straight to paradise...