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...different narrative strands. The operating principle, says Rushdie, is excess. "Everything in this stage version should be excessive, sensual, tumultuous, colorful. That was my view of urban India in that period." After a five-week run in London, the show will go to the U.S., first to Ann Arbor, Michigan, then New York, where Columbia University will present it at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater. Rushdie, who now lives in New York, loves the idea of his work being staged there. "For the RSC to go to Harlem is an important cultural event in itself, but there are resonances there...
...Arbor, Mich...
...numb horror. First the dissolving towers, then the furious retaliation: Muslim-owned shops in the U.S. being trashed and burned, Arab-looking cabbies dragged from their cars and beaten. "We were both in shock," recalls Sana, who telephoned her brother, a student in Ann Arbor, Mich., that first night to make sure...
Supportkids promises to hunt down deadbeats and devote personal attention to custodial parents. Many customers are appreciative. Nancy Fox, 46, lost patience with the child-support office in Ann Arbor, Mich., after a decade of trying to squeeze payments out of her ex-husband. Months after hiring Supportkids in 1999, she gladly received a lump-sum payment of $7,590--after Supportkids took its 34% commission. When the state agency suggested that she might be better off canceling her contract with Supportkids, she recalls asking, "What are you, crazy? Then who's going to collect the money...
...went to Peru last year for Andrew's first visit to his birth country. "It was amazing," he says. "I loved the colorful art everywhere, and I liked seeing people on the street who looked like me." Now he is taking Spanish lessons back home in Ann Arbor, Mich., and has worked as a counselor at a Latin American-culture camp for adopted kids. Andrew's sister Malia, 11, was adopted from Bolivia. "We hadn't spent time in Latin America before the kids, but our children have brought us into this culture, and it is part of us," says...