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...LANKA The harvest is celebrated on April 14 with a rare coming together of the Tamil Hindu and Sinhalese Buddhist communities. The country grinds to a halt for a week as everyone flocks back to the parental home. Drums across the island announce the New Year. Hearths are lit to cook milk rice, and state television counts down to the auspicious time for the meal to begin. Firecrackers explode throughout the night. Families eat festival food, including cakes and sweetmeats. If you can arrange it, this is one holiday best enjoyed in a family home...
...sheep in Berwickshire, near the Scottish border, talks sadly about being "at war with a silent enemy, never knowing where it is, and being forced to stay isolated on our farms." Prince Charles gave $720,000 last week to help those hit the hardest; he said he feared a harvest of suicides...
...problem for the Grille is that it has now acquired this reputation, deservedly or not, which makes it easy picking for investigators," he says. "If you're an ABCC investigator sent to find underage drinking, you're not going to spend time at Harvest or the Charles Hotel. So there's been a ratcheting-up at both agencies...
Memo to Hollywood's leading men: Just because it's a Grisham book doesn't mean there's a part for you. The hero is a seven-year-old boy learning life lessons from his Pappy during a 1952 cotton harvest. This semiautobiographical tale has some class struggle and a pinch of sex, but here the author known for his movie-ready legal thrillers takes time to chill. Too much time, in fact, at 388 pages. But his compassion for his characters is infectious, and the book is finally rewarding--a Sunday sermon from a Friday-night storyteller...
...white powdered wigs to hawk Japanese cars on local TV. What historical commentary there is may have George Washington as slave-owner, and Abe Lincoln as racist. American history seems to have deteriorated in the way that our orchard has, and what we have is not a harvest of heroes, but of shrunken heads. On the other hand, Americans spent $30 million over the weekend to see a movie about Hannibal Lecter eating people...