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...average driver may not think much about??the tires on his car until one goes flat. But those who operate the mining industry's monster trucks, whose wheels are 12 ft. in diameter and weigh 7,500 lbs., know that the rubber on the rims is worth its weight in gold. Giant tires are in increasingly short supply as the extraction industry hits overdrive to chase rising commodities prices. As demand for raw materials grows in the booming economies of India and China, mining companies are scurrying to dig deeper, faster and more efficiently for coal, copper and other materials...
Having Karl Rove write about??lessons from the career of Roosevelt was an insult to one of our greatest Presidents. If Rove had been working for one of T.R.'s opponents, he would have slapped together a band of Spanish-American War Veterans for Truth and suggested that Teddy had been sipping Cuba libres on a gunboat instead of leading the charge up San Juan Heights. WILLIAM G. SCHELLER Waterville...
For all the noise about??Bollywood, most North American filmgoers have yet to see the real thing. And maybe they never will. So how about an Anglo- Indian compromise? That's what Gurinder Chadha, whose Bend It Like Beckham was a surprise hit in 2003, has in mind with her Jane Austen adaptation, Bride & Prejudice: star-crossed love, family-values conflict, lots of vigorous song and dance. The only differences are it's in English and, at 1 hr. 51 min., it's about an hour short of a full-length Indian epic...
...admired Keillor's optimism about??the postelection reconciliation of partisans, but Nov. 2 only marked the beginning of a new battle. I am just 30 years old, but this was the first election in my life in which I felt there was no victory for anyone. I am afraid the rhetoric will get more venomous, and the nation will become more divided. Yet, in a strange way, that fills me with hope...
...frequent visits to his field commanders in Viet Nam to hear their briefings and get firsthand impressions. He used the word briefings as an old soldier would, perhaps not even aware of its connection to his $120 million libel suit against CBS. For briefings are also what journalism is about???gathering facts, asking questions and then briefing a public that hasn't the time or the patience to hear...