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Using novelist Andrew Greeley as a commentator on the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church makes as much sense as naming Madonna as the spokesperson for Celibates of America. MAIA WOJCIECHOWSKA Garfield...
Earth, the second film in director Deepa Mehta's prospective trilogy Fire, Earth and Water, tells the tragic story of the 1947 partition of India as witnessed by Lenny Sethna (Maia Sethna), an 8 year-old Parsee girl. Based on Bapsi Sidwha's novel Cracking India, Earth explores the controversial British partition of India into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, which caused inter-religious massacres by the same Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims who had lived together peacefully for many years. Lahore, the city in which Lenny lives, was the site of a particularly bloody confrontation reflective of the widespread atrocities...
...made no secret of her Hollywood dreams. Now, apparently, Evgeny has decided her virtuosity on the ice is not enough compensation for her tempestuousness off it. On July 19, at the end of an America-wide tour, he told Pasha that he had decided to skate with a rival, MAIA USOVA, left. At least he tried to. Pasha disappeared. He has tried calling since, and she has hung up on him. She claims he hasn't called. Maybe it hurts most because Pasha had a very public affair with Maia's husband and broke up her rival's marriage. "There...
...there is a spate of new books focused on slaves and enslavers. Velma Maia Thomas offers Lest We Forget (Crown; $29.95), an interactive children's book serious enough for parents. Readers remove slave sale receipts from envelopes and pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges...
Marques' fiscal heroics made her a leading candidate to succeed Cesar Maia as Rio mayor in last October's elections, but she chose the steel-company job instead. Now her goal is to revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio. Marques is introducing new management policies--such as dividing the company into separate profit centers by product--that are virtually unknown to Brazil's insular corporate world. "If I don't watch out," she allows, "someone will start importing what I produce within three...