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...Although I hold no brief for Mittal, the tone of the Europeans in this whole affair is decidedly racist. Let us not forget that "new" India has a civilization several centuries older than "old" Europe's. A little competition seems to bring out the worst in some people! Vandana Joshi Accra, Ghana...
...Perishable Good I agree with Joe Klein's column "Democracy, the Morning After" [Feb. 6], which lashed out at President George W. Bush's "love affair with democracy" and its unintended consequences. Democracy, whether American or God's gift, can't be exported like a product; it requires preconditions. During the cold war, the U.S. created and maintained many ruthless and undemocratic regimes that were eventually overthrown by their citizens. During my graduate work in the U.S. 30 years ago, I read in one of the prescribed political-science texts that the U.S. had no formal foreign policy...
...ironic way,” he says. This elite interest in the lowbrow might be seen as a new permutation of what Kaufman says el-ites did with Shakespeare during the nineteenth century.“Up until then Shakespeare was for everyone, and it was a very ribald affair so long as the sex jokes were hammed up,” he says. “Only in the nineteenth century did elites try to make [Shake-speare] something for highbrows.” One worry seems to be that pop culture will also soon be rarified...
That said, I was somewhat intrigued by the prospect of J.R. Ward’s “Lover Eternal,” another addition to the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. “Lover Eternal” chronicles the passionate affair between the vampire Rhage and the cancer-stricken human Mary Luce—it’s “Love Story” with fangs...
...presence: “The musical lilt of her voice, the rhythm of her speech, the sound of her words, it all spread through him, calming him, comforting him.” This drive pushes Rhage toward Mary, and the two begin an intense, yet somehow romantic, affair...