Ruth Padel: 'I rush into things … I'm full of self-doubt' -Ruth Padel's rooms in Christ's College, Cambridge are on a staircase just along the quad from those once occupied by her great-great-grandfather. The doorway retains his name, C Darwin, as though he were still an undergraduate. The author of On the Origin of Species came here in 1829, in relieved retreat from Edinburgh and the medical school his father so wanted him to attend, and he so hated. Although he was technically and, in hindsight, somewhat ironically studying divinity, it was here that he met the professors who recommended him for a journey in the tropics, on the HMS Beagle.
Six Questions for Susan Somers-Willett By Carianne King on Interview - An interview with the VQR contributor about her poetry-based coverage of women who live in endemic poverty in Troy, New York.
Sixty Hours of Terror: Ten Gunmen, Ten Minutes
Sixty Hours of Terror: “It’s Do or Die”
Sixty Hours of Terror: “No Hostages Should Remain Alive”
Sixty Hours of Terror: “By the Grace of Allah”
By Jason Motlagh on terrorism -The four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Brazil's President Lula: 'Father of the Poor' Has Triggered Economic Miracle -Brazil is seen as an economic success story and its people revere President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva like a star. He is on a mission to turn the country into one of the world's five biggest economies through reforms, giant infrastructure projects and by tapping vast oil reserves. But he faces hurdles.
Turkey Has Role to Play A new bright star seems to have risen above the Arab world, heralding new relationships that could benefit the region as a whole. The Arab change of heart towards Turkey, the successor of the dreaded Ottoman Empire, a colonial regime that ruled the Arab world for centuries and collapsed about 90 years ago, came when the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party was elected five years ago. And for the first time in nearly 100 years, Turkish troops descended on Lebanon as part of a UN peacekeeping force following Israel's occupation of the Shiite-dominated South Lebanon.
By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The last of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The third of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The second of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The last of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The third of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The second of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The first of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The last of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The third of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The second of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The first of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The last of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The third of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism | The second of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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By Jason Motlagh on terrorism |
| The third of a four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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