At Least No Computer Help Lines Were Interrupted

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Apparently the business of India is business:
Terrorists can do anything they like,” 52-year-old businessman Dilip Khadaria said. “We are businessmen, we will be going back to work. It won’t hamper our business, it won’t stop our work."


And, excuse me, Mumbai? Everyone mocks Americans for not knowing anything about other countries, but what can we do if they're going to keep changing their names --or those of their major cities? In 7th grade I had a wonderful geography class, during which we memorized every country and its capital (plus all the Canadian provinces and their capitals), and we could find them all on a map. Fat lot of good it did, since most of Africa, "Eastern" Europe and the Middle East has changed since then. (Ask me the capital of Rhodesia.)