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...story quoted a women's rights activist as saying, "Women must work twice as hard as men to advance their careers because of prejudices within Japanese companies ... And then they have to go home and work three times as hard there." Japanese women work until their backs are literally bent to the ground and get no thanks from their husbands and sons. I am glad that a high-profile publication like Time is shedding light on this important subject. Amy O'Dell Obihiro, Japan...
...face of Indian cinema to millions of people, Bachchan's entry into filmdom was not spectacular, as he made a series of flops before his first hit, Zanjeer. His perseverance and persistence paid off finally once his professionalism came to the fore. Even when the media were hell-bent on finishing off his career each time a movie bombed, he resurfaced and confounded his detractors. Most Indians admire Bachchan not just for his talent and charisma but also for his focus and ability to smile during times of adversity. Sajit Nambudiripad Kerala, India...
...bodies covered with blood lying all around," Chawla says, gesturing to the ground, now covered with glass shards, and tattered bits of clothing; one cycle-rickshaw, partially destroyed, lies amidst the mess. Windows of several nearby building have shattered; and the sign-boards above the shops have been bent backwards, as if by a giant hair-dryer blowing at them. Chawla says, "I saw one child which couldn't have been more than six months old, which was dead; its body had been split by the blast. And then there was a family of shoppers, all dead-a mother...
Despite the pop-culture bent of the book, Dowd avoids the trap of writing in the tone of a half-baked Cosmopolitan column. She artfully weaves together facts, studies, and thoughts from friends and celebrities. She scathingly mocks women who bow to the cult of plastic surgeons, men who cannot admit to themselves that they are intimidated by powerful women, and anything and everything “retro.” Behind the catty banter and constant references to “The Stepford Wives” and “Sex and the City,” Dowd...
...better than buying a pin-up. If the film stumbles with its main characters, it crashes to the ground with its politics. The writers make the villainous archduke’s guild a jingoistic metaphor for “anti-American” Europe. With this society of nations bent on crushing all possible threats on the path towards European world dominance, Campbell tries to capitalize on lingering American hostility towards a continent that vociferously opposed the war in Iraq. It’s ludicrous that an action-comedy would try to proselytize in the first place. It?...