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...story of how the "immigrant problem" touches a well-bred boy from the Northern city of Brescia. Sandro (the exceptional first-time actor Matteo Gadola) is the only child of a loving couple (Alessio Boni and Michela Cescon) who run a factory that employs mostly immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe. One night, on a yacht excursion with his dad and uncle, Sandro falls overboard and, when his absence isn't noticed, prepares to die. He calls "Papa!" for help, whispers "Mama!" as a prayer. He bequeaths his worldly goods -"except for The Lord of the Rings" -to a girl...
...GOSWAMI, 39, former Indian district magistrate, who was named as one of Time's 20 Asia's Heroes in 2004; by officials probing alleged overcharging of $2 million, first reported by the Indian Express newspaper, for food and supplies sent to victims of last summer's floods in the eastern state of Bihar; in Patna, India. Last week, Bihar's top official, Chief Secretary K.A.H. Subramanian, announced he would be filing a First Information Report with the police based on his administration's internal inquiry into the affair, a move expected to trigger a criminal investigation of Goswami and others...
Competing at the Eastern Sprints, the No. 5 heavyweights finished in third place in the race for the Willing Point Trophy, with the first varsity eight taking fourth. Meanwhile, the No. 3 first varsity lightweight boat came in third in its grand final on the Cooper River in Camden...
...empty spaces on my AM dial would suddenly and mysteriously fill up with broadcasts from a thousand miles away. Minneapolis' WCCO, the powerful station that I grew up listening to and whose chuckling, easygoing announcers shaped my identity as a Minnesotan, reached out to me late one evening in eastern Washington as I sat parked on the shoulder of a state highway waiting for a tow from AAA. I felt grateful for that little miracle, then desolate when those hometown announcers faded back to static...
...Born of Chinese parents in Perth before growing up in Brunei and, later, Melbourne, Lim is cross-fertilization in action. Her music embodies the process. The Alchemical Wedding, which elision premiered at the Melbourne Festival in 1996, shifts almost imperceptibly between Western and Eastern sounds, from contrabassoon to erhu (as bridegroom and bride), in a sliding scale of culture. With Inguz (1996), named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent...