By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: Recognizing the importance of the Indian diaspora worldwide and the need to unite them with cultural ties, in 2006 then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (who recently died on December 26) inaugurated the first Vishwa Hindi Divas or World Hindi Day which has been...
Prime Minister's Literary Award: Queensland Literary (Fiction) Award: South Australian Literary Awards: SPN Book of the Year Award: Stella Prize: Victorian Premier's Literary (Fiction) Award: Western Australian Premier's Book Award: (No longer does an overall fiction award) Acknowledgement of ...
The lyrics invoke a terrible lot: even though blacks made the cuisine (“sift the meal”) they were given the “husk”—the worse parts—and that's where "my mama's troubles begin." Pigs’ feet are not the prime cut of the pig, to say the least. Yet, when seasoned and pickled th...
While Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has been fiercely critical of the Naypyidaw regime, he once advocated for “constructive intervention” with Malaysia’s then- military rulers in the 1990s when he was Malaysia’s deputy prime minister. Western nations would reject any election that did not involve...
2017 Speakers included Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Dr. Harley Seyedin was among 228 individuals from around the world to have been nominated and subsequently shortlisted in March 2016 by the Nobel Committee for consideration for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. Other individuals considered ...
Don Fordis Head of Research and FCIL (Foreign, Comparative, & International Law) at the University of Iowa College of Law Library. He holds a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law (1985), an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (2002), a BA (...
He Cry Boy See He Sad (2002) Masha No Home (Ensemble Studio Theatre, 2002) When her late mother’s secret legacy – a huge sum of “community” money – is discovered, 17-year-old Masha does the noble thing–and steals it! A darkly comic play, MASHA NO HOME is about a second gen...
being America's "Great White Hope", since the nation expected him to come out of his retirement to beat the African-American boxer Jack Johnson, who was at the time the Heavyweight Champion.Jeffries stood 6 ft 1 1⁄2 in (1.87 m) tall and weighed 225 pounds (102 kg) in his prime....
His monetary theory influenced the Federal Reserve's response to the global financial crisis of 2007–2008.Friedman was an advisor to Republican President Ronald Reagan and Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. His political philosophy extolled the virtues of a free market economic ...
The Boyle family was rescued last October in a dramatic shootout that made international headlines. Weeks after returning home, the Boyle family met Justin Trudeau in the Prime Minister’s Office. Blatchford:Charges or no, it was odd for Trudeau to meet with Boy...