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Musharraf Farooqi, the 39-year-old translator, is an unlikely savior. Growing up in Pakistan, he read of Amir Hamza's exploits in abridged Urdu versions adapted for children - virtually the sole form in which the epic survived into the 20th century. Farooqi, who admits to not being the most...
In the end, a few people will read the World Cancer Research Fund report and act upon it. Most people won't read it, or even want to hear about it, because they have no intention of ever putting down those pork franks or cigars or going on that 30...
“I’m a pimp, and pimps don’t commit suicide.” Such is the reasoning of Boxer Santaros as he struggles to save the world in Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales.” Played by...
Self-effacing is rarely a term used to describe wildly successful venture capitalists. Yet in Tom Perkins' memoir, the Silicon Valley legend--hardly short of ego--manages that trick, revealing himself in all his "nerdy" glory and lifting the veil on the very good life. He sews dry humor through...
The NBA is back! My favorite league, with my all-time favorite athlete (Kobe Bryant), is here for another installment of faaaaaan-tastic action—or at least, that’s what their slogan used to say.Overwhelmingly negative tales of the fall of the NBA due to its...