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An imaginary "scandal".(Notebook)
If a prisoner walks into my consulting room in the prison with a stick, he's a sex offender; if he has gold front teeth, he's a drug dealer; and if he's reading Wittgenstein, he's in for fraud: for it is virtually a law of our penal establishments that fraud and philosophy are what literary theorists like to call metonymic.
When you work in a prison as I do, white-collar criminals come as something of a light relief. At last someone with whom you can have a disinterested, abstract intellectual conversation! No more talk about alcoholic mothers, brutal stepfathers, and terrible childhoods as the fons et origo of car theft: it's straight to the meaning of life, the ...
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- Magazine article from: New Statesman Willcocks, Sarah January 28, 2008 700+ words
...years, from the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser to the 1980s Anglican vicar writing under the guise of an Asian babe, "Rahila Khan". Yet Mullan's interest in anonymity lies not so much with whodunnit but why. Chapters tackle not individuals or genres...
- New survey indicates family planning weaknesses.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International July 16, 2008 700+ words
...governments plan to double the [number of] lady health workers to 200,000 in the next five years is hopefully going to help bring the maternal deaths down, said Rahila Khan, another obstetrician at the hospital. (THROUGH ASIA PULSE)
- For Afghan women: new regime, centuries-old barriers; Tribal attitudes persist...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor August 25, 2003 700+ words
...known as a chador. "When I did not put on a burqa, my problems started as soon as I stepped outside the house," says Rahila Khan, a student of Kabul University. "People in the neighborhood taunted my parents, policemen and soldiers called me a prostitute...
