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...always talking about the death of the novel," he says, sitting in a café near his home in London's Shepherd's Bush. "But ever since [Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel] Midnight's Children, it's been terrifically lively. There's been a revolution in writing in the West. And that's thanks to colonialism." Read "God for the Godless: Salman Rushdie's Secular Sermon...
...Africa Lost and Found A Russian-manned, Maltese-flagged freighter, which vanished last month after a reported hijacking in the Baltic Sea, was recovered along the west coast of Africa on Aug. 17 by Russian officials. If confirmed, the hijacking of the Arctic Sea would be the first act of piracy in European waters since the 17th century...
...board paid him $68.5 million, a record payout for a Wall Street CEO. His 3.4 million shares of Goldman are worth about $540 million. He bought a tony $27 million Manhattan apartment at "Wall Street's new power address," as the New York Times called it, 15 Central Park West. He also owns a 6,500-sq.-ft. (600 sq m) home in Sagaponack, N.Y., near the ocean. (See pictures of expensive things that money...
...Instead, culture may be more of a determinant than race. Williams explained: “If you look at West Indian Americans, they are slightly more represented among professionals than Americans in general—yet they were enslaved. Does a racist employer care whether an African-American’s ancestors came from the West Indies...
...Sharon into power, Ehud Olmert, then the mayor of Jerusalem and Sharon's right-hand man, explained why the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had been brought down. Olmert pointed out that at the Camp David peace talks Barak had offered the Palestinians almost all of the West Bank and half of Jerusalem. Olmert declared, "This shows that anyone who dares to raise his hand against Jerusalem will be wiped...