On 9/11, President George W. Bush Jr. spent eight hours up in the air after the attacks. He was stopped from returning to Washington D.C. by his Chief of Staff and the Secret Service. He was isolated from his administration due to a breakdown in communications. But he didn’t need legal briefs or consultations.…
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(Click title above to buy book) “A Catcher in the Rye” was my first (and, for a long time, only) Salinger book. I read it during my undergraduate years in Mumbai. I was living alone, drinking large amounts of alcohol and, like most adolescents, unhappy with life and the world. It was a confusing time:…
No other writer I know captures the essence of a society in transition as accurately as Naipaul. In his work, Naipaul writes eloquently and simply about people and cultures disconnected from their origins. It is a milieu that he knows well. At the age of seventeen, Naipaul made his way from Trinidad, a semi-developed island…
In an interview with television anchor Al Roker towards the end of his life, Charles Schulz, creator of the phenomenally popular Peanuts comic strip, broke down into tears. “You know, that poor kid (Charlie Brown), he never got to kick the football. What a dirty trick to play, he never got to kick the football,”…
