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...With a $23 million budget and cast that includes Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne, Nair's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair is her biggest film yet. Reese Witherspoon plays Becky Sharp, the 1820s London social climber who set the bar by which such mountaineers would forever after be measured. The buzz is all about how Nair has played up Thackeray's Indian influences?he was born in Calcutta?including a Bollywood dance number and an ending shot in the Rajasthani fort town of Jodhpur. The New York Times griped about the "outlandish" sight of Witherspoon doing...
...modern Olympic Games. The quest for glory has made some athletes use banned drugs or other performance-enhancing products. The Games offer us a rare opportunity for unity and a chance to prove that we are worthy inheritors of the Greek ancestors who left a noble history. Amadi Gabriel Aba, Nigeria Rocking the Vote Re your people item on the musicians who are part of the Vote for Change tour aiming to unseat President Bush in the November elections [Aug. 16]: All I see coming out of this tour is a bunch of musicians forcing their opinions on people...
...hundreds of thousands of beetle-killed trees. These trees, some with rust-colored needles still hanging from their limbs, serve as standing fuel for fires, and an effort is under way to remove as many as possible along the roads inhabitants in the San Jacinto, San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains must take when fire comes to call...
...every consultation with a doctor. Doubts have been voiced - even within the government - over whether these measures will be enough to put France's health-care accounts back in order. If the surgeons get their higher fees, the equation looks even more questionable. But veteran physicians such as Jean-Gabriel Brun, 57, a thoracic surgeon in Paris, say exploding malpractice-insurance costs, paltry fees and 60-hour workweeks are putting his profession on the endangered species list. He says he earns about €140,000 a year, but drives a Volkswagen Golf and has trouble making ends meet...
...station on the grounds of the Bavarian Economics Ministry reserved for government functionaries that makes an annual loss of €40,000. The authorities responsible have noted the complaints, but have not so far moved to resolve them. Elsewhere, however, such grassroots activism is bringing about small victories. Ask Gabriel Levy. He's a retired doctor in the southern French town of Aubagne, near Marseilles, who has filed a stream of suits against the local mayor and city council in an effort to stop them spending money inappropriately. One of his recent victories was against the mayor for taking...