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    May 6, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant

  1. READER SUBMITTED: Rotary Signature Project Unfolds

    East Hartford
    In what has become the signature project of her year as President of the East Hartford Rotary Club, Sheryl O'Connor and East Hartford Rotarians will soon present the Town of East Hartford with a new Bookmobile to be used in supplying books and other media...

    Tags: Rotary International, Skype, Goodwin College, East Hartford

    2. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Review: 'The Revolutionary Optimists' go inside impoverished India

    The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods — as well as within themselves — offer a vital snapshot of developing world struggles and possibilities.
    The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods — as well as within themselves — offer a vital snapshot of...

    Tags: Entertainment, Movies

    3. Oct 9, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. George Platt, theatrical producer

    George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills.
    George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills. Born in Baltimore, he...

    Tags: Martha Raye, Jill Clayburgh, Sid Caesar, University of Maryland, College Park, Carroll O'Connor

    4. Sep 1, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. The typewriter lives on in India

    It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance.
    It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance. Nearby, hundreds of other workers clatter away on manual typewriters amid...

    Tags: Prices, New Delhi (India), Mumbai (India), Computing and Information Technology Industry, India

    5. Dec 9, 2011 |Story| Petoskey News

  5. Friday morning news from around the world

    <span style=&quot;font-size: small;"><strong>Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me'</strong></span>
    Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me' WASHINGTON (AP) -- The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first...

    Tags: David Stern, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abusive Behavior, Republican Party, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida)

    6. Dec 9, 2011 |Story| Daily American

  6. Fire at Indian hospital kills 89 as staff flees

    KOLKATA, India (AP) — Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as black smoke poured through the seven-story hospital in this city in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested....

    Tags: India, Disasters and Accidents, Fires, Hospitals and Clinics, Prosecution

    7. Dec 9, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Fire at Indian hospital kills 89, injures dozens [Updated]

    World Now
    Fire Kolkata India Fire: Fire at Hospital in Kolkata kills 89; among India's worst such tragedies....
    8. Oct 29, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. 12 spine-tingling short stories

    With Halloween right around the corner, I think it's the perfect time to grab some fun-sized candy bars (I suggest 100 Grand), snuggle up with a good short story and get scared stiff.
    Tribune reporter
    With Halloween right around the corner, I think it's the perfect time to grab some fun-sized candy bars (I suggest 100 Grand), snuggle up with a good short story and get scared stiff. I asked the authors and editors I spoke with about the state of the...

    Tags: Dining and Drinking, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Landforms, Horror (genre)

    9. Apr 20, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. William A. Rusher dies at 87; conservative theorist and publisher of National Review

    William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San Francisco. He was 87.
    William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San...

    Tags: Arizona, PBS (tv network), Republican Party, Lawyers, Elections

    10. Jun 20, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Ali Akbar Khan dies at 87; sarod player helped bring Indian music to U.S.

    Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and teacher died of kidney failure Thursday night at his home...

    Tags: CBS Corp., Music Industry, India, Museum of Modern Art, Dialysis

    11. Jul 11, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Cuisines of two Indian cities

    ON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as &quot;The Calcutta Kitchen," by London-based writer Simon Parkes and restaurateur-chef Udit Sarkhel, and "My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking," by anthropologist-chef Niloufer Ichaporia King of San Francisco, are now bringing regional Indian cuisines home for all of us.
    Special to The Times
    ON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as...

    Tags: Islam, Lentils, Recipes, Foods and Beverages, Breads

    12. Apr 12, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. "A Blue Hand" by Deborah Baker

    By Wendy Smith nyone familiar with "In Extremis," her Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of poet Laura Riding, knows Deborah Baker has little interest in conventional lives or conventional narrative. Her new book, "A Blue Hand," which mostly follows...

    Tags: Poetry, Allen Ginsberg, India, Gary Snyder, Death

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A firefighter aims a torchlight through dense smoke aft...
(February 27, 2013)
A firefighter aims a torchlight through dense smoke after a fire broke out at a multi-storey market complex in Kolkata