“It really puts a human face on the term ‘collateral damage.’” ~REPRESENTATIVE ADAM B. SCHIFF, Democrat of California, on meeting with Faisal bin Ali Jaber, members of whose family were killed in an American drone strike in Yemen. Quotation of the Day for Saturday, November 23, 2013. – NYTimes.com.
“You leave no footprints. No one is watching you, but you’re part of history.” ~BILL LEE, who stood guard at the head of the coffin of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago. Quotation of the Day for Friday, November 22, 2013 – NYTimes.com.
“I don’t expect you to understand. I mean, how many people go to work and say, literally say, ‘I might die tonight.’ But that’s boxing.” ~BERNARD HOPKINS, a former boxer known as the Executioner. Quotation of the Day for Thursday, November 21, 2013 – NYTimes.com.
“Today’s event demonstrates the political and economic costs of Syria for Iran. Syria is a kind of flytrap for the Iranians. They’re just stuck to it.” ~CLIFF KUPCHAN, a risk analyst, on the lethal bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, noting that Iran had stirred anger by supporting the …
“Wood cracking, walls falling, you can’t imagine what that sounds like.” ~ELLA BOLAM, on a tornado that leveled her house and dozens more in Washington, Ill. Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, November 19, 2013 – NYTimes.com.
HONG KONG — On the first floor of a hulking residential building, at the end of a dimly lighted corridor, a narrow door opens up into Hong Kong’s economic underbelly. Twenty-two men live in this particular 450-square-foot apartment in the neighborhood of Mong Kok, in cubicles each hardly larger than …
LONGMEN, China — In the shadow of a lush mountain and near a slow-moving river in southeast China sits this village, whose name means Dragon Gate. There are narrow alleys and whitewashed homes and the flesh of sliced bamboo drying on the ground. Its humble appearance, though, belies the fact …
CHANGSHA, China — The cavernous rail station here for China’s new high-speed trains was nearly deserted when it opened less than four years ago. Not anymore. Practically every train is sold out, although they leave for cities all over the country every several minutes. Long lines snake back from ticket …
Rosario Crocetta smokes two to three packs of cigarettes a day, lighting them without putting them to his lips, often glancing at the three cellphones arrayed before him as he does so. If you are speaking to him, as an emissary from Turin named Antonio Saitta was on the day …
NEW DELHI— On a recent afternoon, as an intense stench rose from a carcass dump, a group of women pushed, shoved, and threw expletives at each other outside a temple in Sangam Vihar on the southern edge of Delhi. The women, carrying a few plastic buckets and empty jerry cans, …
Raveendran/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “Yogini,” a 10th-century stone sculpture stolen from a village in Uttar Pradesh and shipped to Paris, was recently returned to India. The sculpture is on display at the National Museum in New Delhi. Image of the Day: Sept. 19 – NYTimes.com.
“I always thought I had Alex protected from being killed by another child by a gun that was not secured. Unfortunately, I was mistaken.” ~CHRISTINA WENZEL, whose 11-year-old son Alex was killed by a pistol found in his father’s closet. Quotation of the Day for Sunday, September 29, 2013 – …
