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...grown children, three of whom live with their wives and children in the farmer's small wooden house, also speak poor Spanish, which eliminates their chances of finding work outside subsistence farming. "There are no schools here," says a neighbor, Diego Mendez. "If we do not speak Spanish, we are lost." Lopez and Mendez are both skeptical about the government's promises to bring running water and electricity to communities like theirs...
...prints and woodcuts, this blood sport looked manly but carried with it about as much risk as watching a professional football game from a skybox, since the cats wouldn't attack an elephant. Today the typical tiger killer is more like an Indian man named Raju: a diminutive, ragged farmer who does not even own a gun. Nonetheless, as a member of the Jenu Kuruba tribe, Raju knows how to hunt the big cats. In 1993 he downed a tiger in Nagarahole Park with a borrowed shotgun...
...Richard M. Head, weather prognosticator, Old Farmer's Almanac...
Take the narrator of the opening story, Accountant. Outwardly, as Abba Roth tells us, he is the picture of upwardly mobile success: "We live in San Rafael, California, and I work at Priebe, Emond & Farmer, the San Francisco firm, where I have worked since the last days of the Eisenhower administration. At one time or another we have owned a Shetland pony, dug a swimming pool, leased a summer cottage at Lake Tahoe, and given generously to the Israel General Fund . . ." Inwardly, he is trying to come to grips with an irrational act of petty theft he committed against...
Fiennes is as reluctant to discuss his personal life as he is ready to analyze Goeth's. But it is no state secret that he was born in Suffolk, eldest of the six children of Mark Fiennes, a farmer turned photographer, and his wife, Jini a novelist and travel writer who died last year. His family moved often, and the boy was educated by Episcopalians, Catholics, Quakers and his mother. After graduation from London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he rocketed through the British repertory system. Then he attracted the best kind of attention: Spielberg...