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...three long stories that make up The Elephanta Suite all deal with New Englanders who settle into the lulling comfort of an Indian sanctuary - a spa, a luxury hotel, an ashram - only to be drawn out of it by their conflicting desires. All three of them start slipping away from their cozy images of themselves, and begin going native on the dark side of town, even as the Indians around them are becoming more like Americans. The fact that the title refers both to a room in a fancy hotel and to a set of movements in a musical sequence...
...media coverage simply by being available and photogenic. Even a screw-up, like the broken projector at last year's midnight Borat screening, can be a buzz-builder if the celeb plays it right. Sacha Baron Cohen, who had arrived at the screening in character on a woman-peasant-drawn carriage, recovered nicely when the film stopped just 10 minutes in; Cohen apologized and explained that the film reel was pieced together with the best Kazakhstani horse glue. The screening had to be rescheduled, but it did its job - the Borat character had a memorable coming out documented in hundreds...
...Here in Chaoyang, an impoverished northeastern Chinese city surrounded by cornfields where farmers still use horse-drawn plows, prehistoric bones have jump-started the economy in a way no free-trade zone or joint venture could have done. The region shot to fame in the mid-1990s when paleontologists began discovering feathered dinosaurs and other well-preserved fossils. They eventually logged at least 500 new species in the area. Good news for scientists, but even better news for an entire generation of farmers, dealers, shop owners, and even local officials who profit from a flourishing underground trade in priceless fossils...
...News & World Report rankings—which have been published since 1983—have drawn ire from a number of sources...
...spokeswoman for US News & World Report, Cynthia Powell, said that the ranking system provides an "objective, fair, balanced" third party perspective on colleges based on facts and statistics drawn from "a group of industry standards of academic excellence...