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...million. But his output was limited and oddly conventional. He directed the disappointing historical epic The Four Feathers (2002) and helped produce Andrew Lloyd Webber's striking but lowbrow Bombay Dreams (2004). Naseeruddin Shah, star of Monsoon Wedding and Kapur's 1983 debut Masoom (The Innocent), acknowledges Kapur's gift, calling him "the only Indian filmmaker of international standard." But he prefers his earlier works, like Bandit Queen, about Indian outlaw Phoolan Devi, and wonders whether the riches that dazzled the accountant have also blinded the director. "He jumped from small budget to these monstrous commercial movies," says Shah...
Over 200 people attended the banquet, which included a catered spread of Indian cuisine and a raffle for prizes including gift certificates to area businesses...
...what has become an inevitable annual tradition, the flaws of the blocking system have again been subject to intense scrutiny. And while much of the criticism is leveled by those members of the Class of 2008 currently embroiled in the process, even upperclassmen favored with the gift of hindsight (most would likely agree that, in retrospect, blocking choices are far less monumentous than they seem at the time) can admit that the current procedure is far from perfect. But thusfar, reasonable solutions seem few and far between...
...mobile groups loyal to Basayev, often living legally in cities and villages. Rebels like these carried out the Moscow theater raid and the Beslan school seizure. And last month Basayev warned that he was planning more "Beslan-type" operations. For men like this, Maskhadov's death is a double gift. It provides the resistance with a new national hero, and it removes the one man who tried to prevent them from waging all-out war on Russia and its people...
...years ago, Fish spearheaded an effort to force Harvard administrators to return a controversial $2.5 million gift from the president of the United Arab Emirates because of his ties to an allegedly anti-Semitic think tank...