Word: uprootedness
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The pulse of India beats fastest in megacities like Bombay. But to understand how quickly the economic boom is creating a new country, you have to visit places that few foreigners have heard of--places like Mangalore. Back in 1991, when I left, about 300,000 people lived there. Since...
But in the stark emptiness of O’Donnell Field—bases uprooted, Princeton’s players gone, only a few kids running around the grass after the game—there it was, cruelly juxtaposed against the shining sun and chirping birds: a finish line.
“I don’t know what my standing is,” said one anonymous non-tenured faculty member interviewed for the 1954 report. “I’ve seen enough with what happens to people when they’re up on the...
AND IT'S OUR NATIONAL TRAUMA. Well, the fracture in our society widened. It's still there--that crack still goes down the middle of it. You could call the war a trauma. It was, of course. But it had an epic quality to it. It was more than a...
Since France's elite counterterrorism forces uprooted networks of Algeria's extremist Armed Islamic Group (gia) who were responsible for the deadly bombing campaign that rocked Paris in the mid-'90s, they've earned added respect by successfully thwarting a score or more of major plots. Lately, however, some of...