A great man
In the wee hours of the night, when all was quiet outside, the newsroom was sheer madness.Teddy was gone.Sen. Edward Kennedy died late Tuesday after battling brain cancer for many…
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August 26, 2009
My finger! My finger! My finger for a vote
The Taliban chopped off the index fingers of two women who braved threats of violence and cast a ballot in Afghanistan's presidential and provincial elections Thursday. That was the word…
August 22, 2009
Oof. Can you make one phone call?
I heard a report on NPR this afternoon about the difficulties of getting a job. The story focused on young people who apply for jobs and never hear back from…
August 18, 2009
Five days before the vote
Seven people died for no reason today in Kabul. In the scope of Afghanistan's bloody history, seven lives are inconsequential. But the effect of today's suicide bombing is significant. It…
August 15, 2009
More TV equals fewer babies?
How to solve India's population problem: Supply every village with electricity so that every villager will watch more television late at night and have less sex.Huh?This is the brainchild of…
August 14, 2009
Cows, goats, Chelsea, oh my
This morning, I interviewed a Kenyan man who is offering 40 goats and 20 cows in dowry for Chelsea Clinton's hand in marriage. She would be wife no. 2 --…
August 7, 2009
The water has come
Once again, thousands of Indians have been affected by flooding in the monsoon season. It's become a regular sight to us, and we saw it here in America in the…
August 4, 2009
Farewell to Basra
The British are fully withdrawing from Iraq today, leaving a legacy, for the second time in a century.They were occupiers of Iraq once before, after World War I; their dead…
July 31, 2009
After the ceremony
After the military ceremony, after the body comes home quietly, unseen by most of the world, after the remains forever join the earth -- that's when the suffering surfaces in…
July 29, 2009
Night and day
I once witnessed a total eclipse of the sun. I can't recall the year -- just that I was young. And that I was home in India. It was supposed…
July 22, 2009