Feminist and author Urvashi Butalia, speaking of the 1947 Partition at the Jaipur Literature Festival, underlinedhow the eruption of violence could not be fully understood until one took into account the routine violence that women suffer in families.
17-minute clip shows nine now-dead attackers beheading prisoners, shooting captives and planning the slaughter in the French capital
House of Representatives will remain closed all week as US capital deals with 22 inches of snow
House of Representatives will remain closed all week as US capital deals with 22 inches of snow
Severe turbulence aboard an American Airlines flight carrying 203 people from Miami to Italy has left seven people hospitalized, the airline said Sunday night. “American Airlines Flight 206 from Miami to Milan briefly encountered severe turbulence,” the airline said in a statement.”The aircraft landed safely in Newfoundland, Canada, where it was met by paramedics who evaluated passengers and crew.” Three flight attendants and four passengers were taken to a hospital, ...
We were "those people" on the airplane, the family with the screaming baby. It was a small plane and the close quarters weren't helping the situation. The passengers' contempt was palpable as we were shot such wicked glances, even Mike Tyson would have flinched. It didn't help that some of those passengers had botched plastic surgery, their look of scorn contorted, making their faces all the more menacing. As we walked off the plane, I was greeted by one such woman who pointed at me and said loudly to her friend... Читать дальше...
We were "those people" on the airplane, the family with the screaming baby. It was a small plane and the close quarters weren't helping the situation. The passengers' contempt was palpable as we were shot such wicked glances, even Mike Tyson would have flinched. It didn't help that some of those passengers had botched plastic surgery, their look of scorn contorted, making their faces all the more menacing. As we walked off the plane, I was greeted by one such woman who pointed at me and said loudly to her friend... Читать дальше...
Amazon India’s portal was the most-visited site in the country and also had the fastest-growing shopping app among all ecommerce companies in 2015.
Both teams showed little urgency at the start.
You don't have to be a couple to celebrate Valentine's Day. Here are the best places to skip town with your friends for the holiday.
You don't have to be a couple to celebrate Valentine's Day. Here are the best places to skip town with your friends for the holiday.
A new propaganda video purports to show several of the men involved in November’s terrorist attacks, calling on Muslims in Europe and the United States to kill nonbelievers “wherever you find them.”
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Warning: Spoilers for the first episode of the new "X-Files" below.
"The X-Files" creator Chris Carter wanted the show's revival to be more than just your standard return. He wanted it to be fresher, more contemporary, and bigger than it had been. The series accomplished that right off the bat by creating the largest prop it has ever made for the premiere episode. But that wasn't even the most expensive episode of the new season.
On Sunday, viewers got an eyeful when the series showed a UFO crash. Читать дальше...
Mark Wahlberg waves to the cameras while listening to music and running errands on Friday afternoon (January 22) in Beverly Hills, Calif. The day before, the 44-year-old Daddy’s Home star was spotted leaving an office building following a business meeting. According to the Evening Standard, a U.K. pop-up restaurant, Lucky Chip, recently had to change [...]
DENVER (AP) — An hour after the game, New England kicker Stephen Gostkowski still felt the sting of a rare missed extra point.
Every January our city has a winter festival. One of the big draws for it is a lot of the area restaurants whip up batches of chili for it. Some are great and some just taste like they were bought from a food service company and then they added a spice or two to claim it's their own. A big contention with a few of them is that they were hesitant to bring any heat.
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I fly an average of twice a month these days, usually for work, and although I spent much of my life afraid of airplanes, I now chase them with an addict’s need. If it has been a while since I have been aloft, I’m restless, peevish, mindless, tired—useless as a human being. The start of a flight heralds a game afoot. The rush is skittish and improbable. A freighted mass of metal rattling down the runway gains a sudden burst of speed and, in a small, miraculous gasp, loses its weight, rises, and soars... Читать дальше...
Last June, a woman walking her dog on Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, came across a black plastic garbage bag on the beach. Inside was a very little girl, dead. The woman called for help and collapsed in tears. Police searched the island; divers searched the water; a medical examiner collected the body. The little girl had dark eyes and pale skin and long brown hair. She weighed thirty pounds. She was wearing white-and-black polka-dot pants. She was wrapped in a zebra-striped fleece blanket. The... Читать дальше...
When Derek Trucks, the guitar wizard, was in the Allman Brothers Band, and they were playing one of their perennial stands at the Beacon Theatre, on the Upper West Side, he always walked to the gigs, sometimes with long cigar detours through Central Park.
With the Iowa caucuses looming, Presidential hopefuls who have already inundated the e-mail inboxes of voters—the “spray and pray” technique, in P.R. parlance—may want to rethink their strategy. In the home stretch, campaign volunteers might benefit from a refresher course in the lost art of picking up the phone. At 9 A.M. one recent Friday, in a conference room fifteen floors above Third Avenue in midtown, a group of aspiring (apolitical) cold-callers convened. They had each paid $199.99 to attend... Читать дальше...
The title character in “Jane Got a Gun” is Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman), who lives with her young daughter in the New Mexico Territory. The year is 1871. Jane has a husband, Bill (Noah Emmerich), who has been gone awhile; now he returns, half dead, with bullets in his back. He tells her that he has tangled with “the Bishop boys,” who are coming to exact revenge. The sensible course of action, at this point, would be for Jane to get out of there like a jackrabbit. Being more cussed than sensible... Читать дальше...
A few months ago, a crowd of curious onlookers gathered on a newly built highway overpass in downtown Port-au-Prince. It was a humid afternoon, too hot to linger outside, but Haiti’s President, Michel Martelly, was scheduled to appear, and any appearance by Martelly was bound to be entertaining. Before being elected President, in 2011, Martelly was Sweet Micky, an extroverted singer of the ebullient dance music called konpa. A popular and bawdy showman, he appears in one typical video clip in a night club... Читать дальше...
The Restorer’s Role
In discussing the digital component of the artist Josh Kline’s work, which relies on technology that doesn’t yet exist, Ben Lerner makes a comparison to the computer-generated restoration of the “Harvard Murals,” a suite of paintings by Mark Rothko (“The Custodians,” January 11th). In the early nineteen-sixties, as an apprentice in the conservation department of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, I was among the crew that worked with Rothko on the installation. Lerner describes the... Читать дальше...
In the English-speaking world, we are used to thinking of our greatest writer as an enigma, or a blank. Though there’s enough historical evidence to tell us when Shakespeare was born and when he died, and more than enough to prove that he wrote the plays ascribed to him, the record is thin. Indeed, the persistence of conspiracy theories attributing Shakespeare’s work to the Earl of Oxford or other candidates is a symptom of how little we actually understand about his life. His religious beliefs... Читать дальше...