On December 9, 2014 Senator John McCain of Arizona made comment on the release of the CIA torture report: “Madam President, I wish to begin by expressing my appreciation and admiration to the personnel who serve in our intelligence agencies, including the CIA, who are out there every day defending our Nation. I have read […]
Travel tales: unswallowing over the sea of China
Travel Tales Chapter One: Jet stream of consciousness Taipei welcomes me with an ice pick in the eye. It’s not a real ice pick. It’s a virtual one, which is worse since I can’t pull it out. I sit patiently and hope it will disappear as quickly as it appeared. I am in a transit […]
Let Mallika Sherawat swallow me: Irrfan Khan
Versatile actor Irrfan Khan has a lead role in the first Hindi film being directed by a Hollywood director. Bollywood Actress Mallika Sherawat plays a man-eating creature in Jennifer Lynch’s ‘Hisss’ and the actor says he would love to be devoured by her. ‘She plays a man-eating creature. She swallows men in the film. And […]
“Defeat bitter pill to swallow” says Kevin Pietersen
"It was a great act to resume cricket two weeks after the Mumbai tragedy. I cannot blame the boys for lack of effort in this Test." said Kevin Pietersen, the England captain. "There were no excuses. The guys just got off the plane and were ready to play cricket the hard way. I am proud […]
River Kosi threatens to swallow Katihar, Purnia districts in Bihar
The turbulent River Kosi, which breached the eastern afflux bund at Kusaha in Nepal and has wrought catastrophe-like havoc in Bihar’s Supaul, Araria and Madhepura districts, is now threatening to swallow new swathes of land in Katihar and parts of Purnia districts. A red alert has now been sounded in Kursela, Barari, Sameli and Amdabad […]
Sudanese Food Exports Hard to Swallow
Posted by Sarah Amandolare to findingDulcinea Sudan is drawing criticism for exporting food while Darfur starves, but the situation is nothing new and Burmese people have faced a similar plight. Despite having “the potential to be the breadbasket of Africa,” according to United Nations World Food Program director Kenro Oshidari, Sudan fails to feed its […]
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