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After the government's triumph in Kilinochchi, Wickrematunge feared that his enemies might feel emboldened to carry out the threats he had been receiving for months. "He felt the euphoria was at a high, and he felt vulnerable," his brother Lal told...
...There is a narrative of sorts that emerges from Butterfly's solipsistic musing, but the book's greatest triumph is her voice, a pitch-perfect mixture of malaprop subcontinental English and the colloquial Urdu spoken by her class - perhaps the most authentic example of what Salman Rushdie has termed the "chutnification" of the English language. Mohsin's ear is preternaturally tuned to the exactness of its hilarious cadences, idiosyncrasies and reinventions ("bore-bore countries," "spoil spots," "what cheeks!"). There's hardly a sentence in the book that doesn't contain them...
While he still faces a court challenge from opponent Norm Coleman, Web users are celebrating Franken's triumph in the Minnesota Senate recount by passing around an obscure video of his appearance on the 1980s television dance show Solid Gold, for which the future politician impersonated Mick Jagger with a cover of "Under My Thumb...
Zardari leads a government whose promise has faded over the past year, in spite of a heady few weeks of triumph after undoing the military leadership of former President Pervez Musharraf. Now Zardari has to deal with Indian charges not only that the Mumbai assailants used Pakistan as their base to organize their attacks but that Pakistan's shadowy but powerful military spy outfit, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), may once again be linked to the radicals allegedly behind the late November assault on India's financial center. The old, poisonous contest between civilian and military leadership seems...
...that sounds like the triumph of culture over religion, it is. By the middle of the 20th century, Americans had embraced a civil religion that among other things elevated the ideal of family to a sacrosanct level. The Norman Rockwell image of family gathered around the tree became a Christmas icon that rivaled the baby Jesus. And Christmas Eve services - with their pageantry and familiar traditions - became just one part of the celebration, after the family dinner and before the opening of presents...