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...possible that I could do this for a living," says Hosseini, 43. "I was reluctant to let go of the security of a very stable life." But, he says, "when I started seeing people at airports reading my book, and when my patients would come in to visit me, more out of a sense of getting a book signed than getting their diabetes treated, I started to see the writing on the wall." He was wise to hang up his stethoscope. In 2007, his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, also hit number one, and has just appeared in paperback...
...just kind of let it simmer. I went to Afghanistan in the spring of 2003, and I met with people who worked for nongovernmental organizations, people who worked as policemen, women who were working as teachers, and I basically just listened to their stories. The purpose of the visit was to educate myself. I really wasn't thinking at all about researching a book. But I came home with this amazing repertoire of eyewitness accounts and stories that were vivid and heartbreaking, and that sat in my head for about another year. When I began writing this novel, all those...
...Blood Diamond,” Edward Zwick ’74 cultivated his interest in film on the slightly less sunny streets of Cambridge. And though Cambridge lacks the glitz and glamour of celebrity-heavy Los Angeles, Harvard holds a special place for Zwick, who paid a visit to his alma mater on Nov. 17 to premiere his newest film, “Defiance,” for Harvard students at the Brattle Square Theater. Zwick has always felt the allure of the film industry. “I grew up as part of a generation to whom movies were...
...firing, they got away as fast as they could. “We didn’t look towards the cafe, we rolled and ran, and got the hell out of there,” he said.Singh and his friend darted into the club they had initially planned to visit, and didn’t comprehend what they had witnessed for nearly 45 minutes. “We walked right into the club, it was pretty weird,” he said. They had a drink and when they came out of the club for a breather, the owners closed...
Witness Islamabad's response to India's call for the chief of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) organization to visit India to assist the investigation. The ISI is an arm of the Pakistani military that has long cultivated jihadist groups ranging from the Taliban to Lashkar e-Toiba (LeT), prime suspect in the Mumbai massacre. Pakistan's government immediately announced that Lieutenant General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha would fly to India to comply with New Delhi's request. A day later, however, Pakistan changed its tune - reportedly following a midnight meeting between army chief General Ashfaq Kiyani, on one side...