Word: zaidi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Zaidi ’08 said that the final bill extended across political lines. "As it is now, it’s something that Republicans, Democrats and most Harvard students can come to an agreement...
...Zaidi introduced a successful amendment to the bill prior to passage which he said distanced the UC from the activist group and its demands. His amendment stripped language from the bill referencing "a decent standard of living...
...obvious allusion to the living wage campaign," Zaidi said. "We didn’t want to be affiliated with the SLAM movement...
...Zaidi, a crime correspondent at Bombay's Mid-Day newspaper, portrays the city's cops and their investigation as thoroughly professional, despite a wealth of independent evidence to the contrary. He glosses over their lapses?detectives took 48 hours to discover that the bombers' car was owned by a Mafia don?and all but ignores their imprisonment (and sometimes torture) of hundreds of innocent Muslims. In one typical partial passage, Zaidi describes how on March 15, "after three days of running around furiously," one investigator, Rakesh Maria, "was hoping to spend most of the day at home" but was suddenly...
...undeniable strength of Black Friday is the depth and intelligence with which Zaidi portrays the bombers themselves. In penetrating this closed world, Zaidi ridicules the shorthand caricature of terrorists so popular nowadays: that they are "evil," "fanatic" or "mad." Instead, we get to read about ordinary men who start out with earthly motivations and none-too-resolute convictions but who ultimately come to embrace terror. One such character is Badshah Khan, an underworld foot soldier recruited to the plot and swept up in righteous determination, dutiful loyalty and terrifying excitement. He scouts targets, assesses their vulnerability and helps plant...