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...count, we've mourned Obed Ramotswe 12 times this morning, and I'm not the only one feeling slightly overcome. His daughter, Precious, has cried her way through 12 renditions of the Botswanan funeral spiritual "Your Yoke Is Light to Carry," and when I approach her, she tearfully waves me away, saying: "I have to stay where I am." Several members of the congregation also look like they can't go on. Even the Western PR executive next to me, a veteran of hundreds of scenes like this, tells me she's finding the whole thing "really quite moving...
...film then spends most of its time trying to cure Chuck of his animosity toward gays. He attends a gay ball dressed as Count Dracula and befriends a tough cop who's secretly gay. Finally he convinces his macho pals in the firehouse, who had turned on him and Larry, that gay ain't so bad. The "gay" firemen's presumed crimes against nature matter less than their membership in the anti-arson brotherhood; camaraderie is the straight version of gay pride...
...want to get a sense of the potential of India's car industry, count the country's motorbikes. Buzzing along Mumbai's crowded highways, standing outside modest homes in rural villages or packed into the parking lots of Bangalore software firms, motorbikes and scooters currently outsell passenger cars by more than six to one. As the country's booming economy pulls millions of people into the middle class, the first vehicle most people buy has two wheels, not four...
...combative relationship with the Church. Yet his artistic bent was central to his life, too. William Shea, who holds the Galileo Chair in History of Science at the University of Padua, notes that as a teenager the future scientist received comprehensive training as a draftsman, and would eventually count prominent Renaissance artists and architects among his best friends. Late in life, Galileo told his assistant that if he could have pursued any profession, he would have been a painter. "There are so many official documents that are used to recount Galileo's life," says Shea, who has penned several Galileo...
...school with the best overall athletic performance in both men's and women's sports. "You win that by winning national titles. You don't win it by how many women coaches you have." Thanks to Title IX, women have a bigger stake in college athletics. Just don't count on them to call the plays...