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Later, Taraki will boast that his coup took both superpowers by surprise. The Americans certainly were: it's rumored, though never confirmed, that the coaches of our Little League game that afternoon were CIA agents who missed the biggest news from their patch for years. All summer, my father cycles to his office at the Ministry of Justice in the sumptuous Darul Aman Palace. He's there to help the ministry frame a written legal code from tribal law, but as the summer wears on, the work dries up. The ex-minister remains in jail. Soviet advisers hustle through...
...year-old son with a daunting choice. William could let the company coast (the export business was doing well, but handweaving limited the volumes that Fabindia could trade in). Or he could begin selling cheaper, machine-produced cloth, discarding his father's belief in the handmade. Instead, he took a third way. He knit together Fabindia's 40,000 individual artisans into a reliable supply chain and began focusing on the domestic market. Starting with a handful of boutiques, Bissell created a 110-store, $65 million national brand - without straying far from its homespun roots. That makes Fabindia an early...
...Beijing's livelier quarters. It doesn't have anything like the same degree of authenticity as the Bund, but the restaurant's spectacular view over the north end of Tiananmen - facing the two huge imperial gates - can't be beaten for sense of place. The location took seven years to find. Even then, a plan to open before the 2008 Olympics was scuttled by delays in Qianmen's construction; the restaurant was then only open briefly before being shut again during the huge security operation surrounding the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic...
...more of President Obama's interviews I read, the more I respect him for his integrity and class. He has been in office just a year but is widely expected to clean up the mess it took the Bush Administration eight years to create. And he has to do it while dealing with some of the worst partisanship I can recall in recent history. Anyone who remembers Economics 101 knows unemployment is the hardest and last problem to be solved. Give the President a break. Donna J. Moore Moweaqua...
Some 2,500 supporters of Sarath Fonseka took to the streets to protest the retired general's arrest on Feb. 8 for "committing military offenses." Fonseka had challenged President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a Jan. 26 election, the country's first since the end of a 26-year civil war last May. Former allies, the two quickly became foes, with Fonseka alleging election fraud and claiming that his life was threatened following Rajapaksa's victory. Fonseka is set to be court-martialed at a later date...