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According to the source, 15 to 20 faculty members and administrators from Yale met to discuss the initiative last week at the request of that university's provost, Alison F. Richard...
...Reported by James Carney with Bush, John F. Dickerson with McCain and Maggie Sieger/Detroit
Fomenko, 37, calls himself a reformed hunter. A Siberian native, he spent many years earning a living by legally shooting and trapping the taiga's mink and sable. Comfortable even when the temperature hits -40[degrees]F, Fomenko can glide through the deep snow like a cat, carefully placing one foot in front of the other, so his footprints disappear in the steps of his prey. Now and then he stops, sable hat in hand, to do what he does best: listen to the forest. "When you live alone in the taiga for months," he says, "you get to know...
...keen depiction of a lost Pakistani generation will invite comparisons with F. Scott Fitzgerald, though perhaps a closer analogue would be the late Robert Bingham, who did for overly rich young New Yorkers what Hamid is doing for their Pakistani counterparts. And given the focus on substance abuse, one might even call it a Pakistani Trainspotting, minus some luridness and plus a smattering of Urdu. Could this novel have been set in New York? Probably not. The corruption among the elite, the nuclear threat and the constellation of gender and social issues in Pakistan work in a constellation that would...
...Courtney F. Egelhoff...