I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.
Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion, too.
I was - the last protest I was at was in Genoa, where I got tear gassed, and I hate tear gas, and I hate being in crowds.
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.
