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...India's state-owned television network. I was living in India at the time and saw how the show changed people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined 6.15 meters. He told me he wanted to saw the nails off but would do so only...
...true” ethnic identity came out exclusively in the realm of my home life. I spoke Bengali with my parents and ate Indian meals. Family occasions and religious festivals were, among other things, excuses to get dressed up in my favorite ghagra outfit. I was raised strictly Indian, with the standards and cultural values to match. But among my high school friends, my “Indianness” was, more than anything else, a source of amusing stories about strict parents and endless weddings, and the justification for sitting through a four-hour Hindi movie...
...player and proud of it. "I aspired to be the next Clark Clifford," he writes,"[who] set the standard for practicing law as an ultimate Washington insider." He occasionally gilds the lily, telling us which other insiders he dined with, which trendy spot they frequented and even what they ate...
When the horn sounded, all that Harvard’s seniors could do was hug and cry. For the eight of them who lived and ate and slept and watched TV and studied together for four years, that...
...that the voice mail on his cell phone contained messages saying whether the British Home Office would allow him to play for Man U, the nervousness had him "jumping out of my skin." But he didn't sprint out of the locker room to get a signal. He showered, ate a meal, and then he boarded a bus before allowing himself to know the decision that would change his life. "I've always tried to suppress those things," Howard says. "Having Tourette's syndrome coming up, I thought: They've always got that. If I'm the best...