Rahul Mahajan was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1969. He received his Bachelor`s in Mathematics from Caltech in 1992 and will receive his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in August 2002. He has been an Austin resident for most of his life, starting when his family moved here in 1977 and continuing except for brief periods when he went away to school.
The “Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction” has done reasonably well what it was…
As columnist David Saransohn of the Oregonian points out, there is a curious gap in all the talk at the Republican National…
NOTE: Doctors from four hospitals in Baghdad were interviewed in compiling this report; all asked that their names be left out. …
Baghdad, Iraq — Aadhamiyah. People of Baghdad, Sunni and Shia, have been undertaking a massive relief collections for besieged Fallujah, coordinated through…
Baghdad, Iraq — Aadhamiyah. The mosque of Abu Hanifa, built around the tomb of the founder of the mainstream Hanafi school of…
Before the Iraq war, at a meeting of the Arab League, Secretary General Amr Moussa famously said that a U.S. war on…
[Note: This is one of the March 14 entries of Empire Notes, a daily updated blog by Rahul Mahajan, a frequent ZNet…
Whether yesterday’s attacks in Spain, in which 190 people were killed and nearly 1500 wounded, were carried out by the Basque separatist…
For at least six months, I have been resisting early pronouncements of BushĆ¢€ā¢s political death. Most of them seemed to be composed…
In the late 19th-century folk classics of Joel Chandler Harris, there is an episode where the wily Brer Rabbit, his main character,…
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