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...endeavoring to serve the people, these "public servants" want to use lip service and cosmetic changes to pull the wool back over our eyes. There can be no excuses for their flagrant disrespect and misuse of public office. Jeremiah Duke Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, U.S. A Sweater for All Seasons Your notebook item "No Changing His Stripes," about Bolivia 's new President, Evo Morales, and his omnipresent striped pullover [Jan. 23], made me wish there were more leaders like Morales who would pay less attention to how they look for photo ops and more to their job. Anurag Chatrath New Delhi Above...
...troubled relationship between Todd and Sofia, offset by escalating tensions in a Shanghai soon to be invaded by the Japanese. Both Sofia and Todd have lost everything in their lives and, because of this, find comfort in one another. Romantic movie weaklings, who cry over “The Notebook,” may need to find comfort in their Kleenex. Lynn Redgrave, real-life mother to Richardson, fittingly plays Sofia’s mother, while Richardson’s aunt Vanessa plays the mother of Sofia’s dead husband. The two hypocritical society women frown upon Sofia?...
...piece in which Ghosh, sitting at his desk in Delhi, working on his first novel, in 1984, suddenly sees the tranquil world around him go up in flames in the wake of Indira Gandhi's assassination. Hours before, he was just another student and aspiring author, hovering over his notebook in a part of Delhi called Defence Colony; overnight, he becomes an activist of sorts, going out into the streets to shout Gandhian slogans with the other everyday citizens trying to quell the riots...
...camera opens on a simple school notebook: Aes’s fabled tome of rhymes, which opens to reveal strings of rearranging words that, in a fashion reminiscent of Beck’s ASCII-chic “Black Tambourine” video, briefly form an outline of his face. Aesop easily laps Mr. Hansen’s one-trick pony, as he quickly takes corporeal form...
...nights longer. A cold wind blows off the Charles. It’s that time of year when FM stays in, draws a bubble bath, pours a glass of merlot, and indulges our wants and needs. We take the big red clunker (the phone) and an elegant leatherbound notebook (a backup phone) into the bath, run the suds, and kick back with a man. A real man—and no one knows what makes one of those like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. After all, who better to riff salient on strength, courage...