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...will be. Recently he summoned five of the Havana brains to the hills for a conference, and they had to turn him down - they were too flabby for the trip. They have to worry whether Castro has really discarded the socialistic beliefs that he held earlier, including drastic land reforms and nationalization of U.S.-owned power companies. Castro persists in the cane-burning campaign - a pointless waste of the country's wealth that may well anger many Cubans. Up in the hills, notes one conservative rebel with a mixture of admiration and fear, "he acts like a King before...
...school as a four-letter word, typifying everything that was wrong about a class-bound society, a generator of snobs who didn't deserve yet another benefit from a nation that had long awarded life's glittering prizes to those who were lucky enough to have been born to land, money, privilege or all three. But Eton is having a makeover. It's trying to marry the lessons about educating adolescent boys acquired over 566 years to the spirit of a less hierarchical, more competitive, more globalized Britain, and the effort is bearing fruit. If it plays its cards right...
...stolen. It's where a phone operator who calls herself Mary (but is really Meenakshi) sells Texans on two-week vacations that include the Taj Mahal and cut-rate heart surgery. Chances are those medical tourists will touch down in Bombay, since 40% of international flights to India land here, delivering thousands of new visitors every day--an increasing number of whom are staying for good. The reason is simple: to know Bombay is to know modern India. It's the channel for a billion ambitions and an emblem of globalization you can reach out and touch, a giant city...
...estuary to reach downtown. And once there, you find a tropical British city of Victorian railway stations, Art Deco apartment blocks and Edwardian offices. Christabelle Noronha, a p.r. executive who has lived in the city all her life, says the sense of being in a foreign land gives Bombay an uninhibited air. "If everyone is a stranger, then everyone is free," she says...
...Beyond heartbreak, she says, Netiv Ha'asara's sense of security was shattered. "People understood you can die from this." Pnina imagines someone saying, "It's not so awful, you can live with it," because most missiles land in uninhabited areas or the sea. "But you can't," she says, "because you are all the time under threat...