Biden Sets Ambitious Goal: “To Exceed — Before This Decade Is Out — Pakistan”

“This and other things,” he said, “we choose to do, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

Consumer price inflation in Pakistan jumped to a record 35.37% in March from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said on Saturday, as at least 16 people were killed in stampedes for food aid.

Thousands of people have gathered at flour distribution centres set up across the country, some as part of a government-backed programme to ease the impact of inflation.

At least 16 people, including five women and three children, have been killed in stampedes at such centres in recent days, police and officials have said. Thousands of bags of flour have also been looted from trucks and distribution points, according to official records.

Reuters via Investing.com | 4-1-23 | Asif Shahzad

Straight Line of the Day: Other Changes to Literature From the Past: …

And Then They Went After Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple Mysteries Are Being ‘Rewritten for Modern Sensitivities.’
American Thinker | 03/27/2023 | Rajan Laad

Just yesterday, The Telegraph reported that Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries are being ‘rewritten for modern sensitivities.’

The following are some examples.

The 1937 novel Death on the Nile is mostly set in the African continent.

At one point in the novel, a character complains about a group of children pestering her as follows:

“…they come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children.”

The above text was altered as follows:

“They come back and stare, and stare. And I don’t believe I really like children”.

Descriptions of a black servant, who is originally described as grinning as he understands to stay silent, is now described as neither black nor smiling but simply “nodding.”

References to the word ‘Oriental’ has been removed, and so have references to the Nubian people.

In a new edition of A Caribbean Mystery from 1964, Miss Marple’s musing that a West Indian hotel worker smiling at her has “such lovely white teeth” has been removed, and other references to teeth have been removed.

… James Bond’s voodoo nemesis in Live and Let Die will be replaced by a white Catholic priest.

… James Bond in “Diamonds Are Forever a Symbol of Patriarchal Wealth Inequity”

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