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...crime enacted on her is no surprise. Nor should it shock that, in the patriarchal world Chettri describes, Jhuma blames herself. "Her heart was heavy, and it burned with remorse," writes Chettri. Soon after she discovers that she's pregnant and that the soldier has fled, Jhuma prepares to kill herself. What might jolt a contemporary reader, though, is her feudal salvation: just as she's about to jump off a cliff, Jhuma is saved by a fat old goatherd who has secretly loved her and promises to care for her forever. She relents, with many "tears...
Petraeus and Odierno also realized early on that the insurgents could never be defeated the old-fashioned way. "You cannot kill your way out of an insurgency," Petraeus tells Time. "You're not going to defeat everybody out there. You have to turn them." And many of America's enemies were ripe for turning. Before the surge, elements of al-Qaeda in Anbar province were carrying out grisly atrocities against local Sunnis, including women and children, who refused to join the jihad against Americans. The Sunnis approached the Americans for help, and Petraeus was happy to oblige. The local uprising...
...your performance in Dead Man Walking. How do you feel about the use of capital punishment? -Yao Fei, Nanjing, ChinaI am viscerally against it. I think it is done capriciously and arbitrarily, depending on color and income. I don't believe it is the government's place to kill citizens under any circumstance-especially when it is done badly...
...played a total of seven grueling sets the previous day.Ermakov’s exhaustion notwithstanding, Clayton’s play benefited from new-found aggressiveness. Clayton’s defensive play had worn down opponents in the past, but only after marathon rallies. Now he goes for the kill earlier. “His serve, particularly his second serve, was much more attackable,” Ermakov said, “but now he’s spinning it pretty hard and it’s much harder to attack. Chris is taking [the ball] much earlier and putting...
...those, Veli Kucuk, a retired major general, was allegedly plotting to kill Pamuk, Turkish newspapers reported. Kucuk is suspected of running a secret unit within police forces that carried out bombings and killings for which other groups were widely blamed. Also arrested was Kemal Kerincsiz, a nationalist lawyer responsible for numerous cases against Pamuk, Dink and other intellectuals. None of the suspects have spoken about the charges...