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...Pakistan, where much of the political power resides with the military or the mullahs. By turning out in massive numbers on Dec. 29 to hand a decisive victory to the Awami League, which campaigned on its secular, reformist credentials, Bangladeshis hope they have steered their nation past those twin shoals...
...India's Katrina There is one glaring discrepancy in comparing the Taj to the Twin Towers. Americans of all political stripes came together on 9/11 and during its aftermath. In India, the feud between the ruling Congress Party and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), composed of Hindu nationalists, never paused. On Nov. 28, while Mumbai was still in the grip of terror, the BJP released a campaign ad for coming state elections that said, "Brutal terror strikes at will. Weak government: unwilling and incapable. Stop terror. Vote BJP." Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat who has been widely...
...Instead, my friends already had stories of their own, some more recent than others. One had spent a year in Israel. His favorite Sbarro’s had been completely bombed out two weeks after he left. In New York, the Twin Towers had been obliterated; the Taj Hotel, after all, was still standing...
...Porcupines.”“Who?”“Oh, you probably haven’t heard them yet. They’re really indie. It’s a parapalegic girl with her twin brother on the tambourine.”“Awesome.”Essentially, two things are required for music to be cool: it has to be kind of angsty, and it has to be pretty under-the-radar. Well, High School Musical is anything but angsty. And as far as popularity goes?...
...Harvard women’s squash team (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) opened its 2008-09 campaign by notching convincing wins over Brown and Williams with twin 9-0 routs. With last year’s entire starting nine returning and two highly-touted freshman opening their collegiate careers, the team was at top form from the first point. Despite having no seniors in the starting nine and just freshmen and sophomores in the top four flights, the Crimson demonstrated the consistency and poise of a much older team. “Not losing anybody from last year really helped...