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...moments in Indian history - the war with China in 1962 and the 2002 riots - in wonderful detail that links to the personal tale at the center of the novel. But the undoubtedly painstaking research can also grow too heavy and sometimes leaves one wanting more story and less history lesson...
...while dwelling in a land without my people, I participated in three conversations about Judaism that are lodged in my brain. I offer them here, not to teach a lesson or recount any epiphanies (I didn’t have any), but to provoke questions that might lack answers. Please feel free to contact me if you can figure out what they mean, because I sure as hell don?...
...also offers an early lesson in how costly motor sport can be: a decent second-hand kart costs around $3,000, and racing in a national championship season can add anything from $10,000-$30,000 on top of that. For parents, that's hardly pocket money. "I knew the financial commitment they were making," remembers Plato. "Every time your bum hits the seat, you've got to perform...
...spent the first third of her life training to be an Olympic figure skater. Every waking hour was devoted to the sport; she studied classical ballet at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. When she didn't make the Olympic team, "I had to learn a big life lesson," she says, "which is that when you are so obsessed by something and you can no longer do it, you dust yourself off and keep going...
...State Condoleezza Rice who told him to to butt out after he criticized the war talk from Western officials. But, having been vindicated in his prewar claim that Saddam had no nuclear weapons program, ElBaradei is unlikely to back off. "I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons," he said in response to earlier criticism...