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The Mark Zuckerberg moral: Entrepreneurship or Terrorism?
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is TIME magazine’s person of the year. That has unleashed voluble outrage, particularly on Twitter. “The world is off its rocker,” one Twitterer commented. “Ridiculous,” noted another. Among the 140 character crowd Wikileaks’s Julian Assange seemed to be the favorite. (Definitely not mine.) TIME notes that “person of the year” isn’t [...]
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Pakistan postcard part four: Smell
Part four of my five-part postcard of impressions of my Pakistan visit… smell…. Smell It brought tears to my eyes. As soon as the astringent yet sugary scent that wafted through the Marriott Karachi hit my nose, my stomach tightened: someone was cooking onions. I hate onions. There’s no real explanation for it. I just [...]
Pakistan postcard part three: Taste
Part three of my five-part postcard of impressions of my Pakistan visit… taste…. Taste “I’d like a glass of wine,” I said to the waiter as he handed me a menu in the garishly lit hotel restaurant in Karachi. It was my first night in the country. Jetlagged, I was looking forward to red wine [...]
Pakistan postcard part two: Sound
Part two of my five-part postcard of impressions of my Pakistan visit is what I heard…. Sound Pakistan hums with machinery. It is a powerful hum that, in certain instances, drowns out all other sounds. One barely notices the cacophony of Pakistani families who travel in packs, or hears the ‘Allahu akabar’ of the azan, [...]
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Pakistan postcard part one: Sight
A week ago, I visited what is supposedly one of the most dangerous places in the world: Pakistan. While I do believe the country has serious security concerns, the only threat I came up against was traffic. And that, compared to New York or Istanbul, wasn’t all that bad. Here is the first of my [...]
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