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After a brief tour in the Burma police (like Orwell), Saki turns up in London at 29, doing political lampoons for the Westminster Gazette with parodies of Lewis Carroll and Kipling. In The Political Jungle Book, Lord Balfour, the hapless Prime Minister, is called "Sheer Khan't." Throughout Saki's life, Celtic mysticism and foreboding, plus a raw strain of patriotism, kept trying to break through the veneer of satiric wit and comic, cultured urbanity that made him celebrated as man and writer. Langguth notes that he knew "the frustration of an adventurer's soul locked...
...letter written in 1246 by Genghis Khan's grandson and heir, the Grand Khan Kuyuk, grandiosely inviting Pope Innocent IV and "the kings of the West" to a summit conference at Karakorum...
...gunmen had been wanted by Pakistani authorities even before the hijacking. The trio's 22-year-old leader, Salamullah Khan, a former science student at Karachi's Jinnah College, was accused of murder and other serious crimes. Nasir Jamal Khan, 22, also a former science student, was allegedly involved in the killing of another undergraduate. Only the third hijacker, Arshad Hussain, who was also a Karachi college student, had no previous police record...
...more chapter in the continuing saga of former Harvard racquetman MIKE DESAULNIERS. Desaulniers last weekend captured the $15,000 Dunlop U.S. Pro Squash Championships in Detroit. The tournament marks the third straight time in as many weeks that Desaulniers has beaten Sharif Khan, the current number one world ranking professional. Desaulniers is the first man to ever beat Khan in three consecutive weeks...
Former Crimson racquetman MIKE DESAULNIERS won last week's $25,000 World Pro squash championships in Montreal. The tournament marks the second time in as many weeks that the former Crimson, captain has beaten his nemesis Sharif Khan. Two weeks ago, Desaulniers whipped Khan in a tourney in Minneapolis...Desaulniers is currently ranked second in the world according to the mid-year computer rankings of the World Professional Squash Association, behind Sharif Khan. Bill Kaplan--captain of the 1976-77 Crimson racquetmen, is ranked thirteenth...Most of the members of the men's squash team received a special kind...