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...Bollywood has eyes to conquer the firangis?Hindi for "foreigners." U.S. viewers know Bollywood secondhand from Moulin Rouge (the production number with the elephant), Ghost World (that goofy disco clip, from the 1965 film Gumnaam) and the art-house hit Monsoon Wedding (the dance that brings a fractious family together). Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood-themed West End musical with an irresistible crossover score by top Indian composer A R Rahman, is headed to Broadway. But can the real thing make it here? Can Americans open up to the baroque beatitudes of Bollywood cinema...
...only a tiny minority of China's cybercaf?s is playing by the rules. Since the hourly charge is less than 50 cents at the priciest Shanghai outlets, city dwellers vow to keep surfing. "Coming to an Internet bar is cheaper than karaoke or a pub or a disco," says Zhang Guoming, a 34-year-old cybercaf? owner in Shanghai. "There's less harm in it than going elsewhere. Why are they trying to close us down...
...typical salaryman now endures a daily allotment of petty humiliation. On his way to his dead-end job, he glances up to see a jumbo TV screen showing middle-aged men in boxer shorts dancing the parapara, a kind of disco line dance. After work, he steps around homeless men at the train station who once had stable jobs like his. If he seeks solace at his favorite izakaya, or pub, he may find ridicule in the form of oyaji gals, young women who get their kicks by dressing in wrinkled men's suits and doing salaryman impressions: swilling beer...
...lived on the royalties ever since, never holding a job, never marrying, never doing anything with his life but shooting pool, getting his hair done and chasing babes. As islands go, he thinks he's Ibiza, where the emotional climate is languid but you can always find a disco to jump-start a night that looks as if it might loom a little too long...
...always have a choice. There have been many oppressed peoples who did not attack innocent civilians. Some groups, with enormous amounts of restraint and self-respect, have been able to effect change without resorting to violence. When it comes to detonating oneself in a shopping mail, a restaurant or disco, there is always a choice. For the Palestinian leadership to insist that the occupation has forced its people to commit these atrocities—that the Palestinian people have no agency—is to deny the very humanity of the Palestinian people...