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...some undergraduates seemed to treat relationships as a means to an end, establishing contacts as a way to bolster social capital, Clarel simply valued the authenticity of true human connection. Whether it was an impassioned conversation in his Thayer entryway or a hard-fought pickup soccer game across the river, Clarel lived to experience people and share his love of life with others...
...this more apparent than in the enclaves of Cooch Behar. The story, as it was repeatedly told to me by various BSF officials, goes like this. The Raja of Cooch Behar and the Nawab of Rangpur, the rulers of two minor kingdoms that faced each other near the Teesta River, staked games of chess with plots of land. To settle their debts, they passed chits - pieces of paper representing the territory won or lost - back and forth. When Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the law lord who partitioned India, drew the 1947 border, Cooch Behar went to India and Rangpur to Bangladesh...
...Shifting Border The word I hear most often to describe this boundary is porous. It twists through all kinds of terrain, from the mangroves on the western end through the fierce currents of the Brahmaputra River in the north to the thick jungles of the Chittagong Hill Tracts on the eastern side, all of which serve as natural barriers. At its most developed, the border looks like Petrapole, the channel for the vast majority of legal migration and one of the largest land crossings in Asia. More than 1,000 people pass through every day, most by bus and some...
...stopped by the BSF, who have orders to shoot if threatened. On my way back to the main road with my BSF escorts, two men cross our paths. "They're Bangladeshi," one officer says. And they send them on their way. There's an unusual feature of the Ichamati River here: every six hours it changes course. Once, people moved across it freely. Now, only the water does...
...during the first three and last eight minutes of the flight. But I was surprised to find that the safety card was incomprehensible and I couldn't locate my life vest. The flight attendants agreed that the instructions were confusing, but nothing was done. The crash in the Hudson River provides a teachable moment for all flyers. But the airlines have to do their part to provide the most basic information passengers need to survive. Lindsay Doran, LOS ANGELES...