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...Many of Ghosh's fans regard his best book as In an Antique Land, a work of nonfiction that explored the relationship between a medieval Indian slave and his Egyptian master. Since its publication in 1992, the Oxford-educated student of anthropology has mostly stuck to fiction, but each of his past few novels has been a Trojan horse of nonfiction?full of interesting facts about an academic discipline (science, anthropology, history, semiotics) that most of his countrymen would have been loath to learn about if it were not sugar-coated in fiction. The Calcutta Chromosome was brimming with details...
...perky performance we do, not least because we have all been in her position, desperate to impress our betters. Moreover, director Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama?populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne?of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...
...pyrotechnic blast will fire a pin across the mouth of the hook, sealing it around the cable; finally, a winch will spool the cable out a bit, reducing the jolt on the helicopter. "It's a smooth transition in the mid-air retrieval," says Brian Johnson, the payload master aboard the chopper...
...private meeting between the two men, which was described as "warm" by Elysée officials. They said Chirac fully backed the Sarkozy bid he had sought so long to prevent. "Chirac was beaten, so he's trying to save face by giving the impression he is still master of the game," says a Sarkozy adviser, who mocks any notions that fences have been mended between the rivals: "They hate each other." The Sarkozy camp is hoping Chirac won't want to be made to look vindictive by forcing out his Finance Minister; the Chirac camp is hoping that Sarkozy...
Come on, people - you don't have to be an olympic gymnast to master this move. My 10-month-old daughter, Coralia, has it down cold. Step One: Stand up. Step Two: Bring your open palms together with as much force as possible. Step Three: Yell, "Bravo Hellas!" Give the Greeks an Olympic-size round of applause. Heaven knows we deserve it. Greece, my charmingly chaotic country and the butt of international ridicule for the past seven years, really delivered. We staged a successful Olympic Games - something the rest of the planet was sure we couldn't do. Practically from...