The deskbound police officer had no opportunity to deal with street crime.

These chefs and their devoted clientele are less vegetarians than vegivores, a term that connotes fervid vegetable love rather than ardent meat hate.

A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.

It took years for the archeologist to piece together the fragments of the shattered vase.