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...that show how ordinary Indians have helped to sustain their extraordinary body politic. During the Emergency, he notes, when public dissent was curbed and newspapers were censored, an article published in an economic magazine under the innocuous title "Livestock Problems in India" began with the line: "There are at present 580 million sheep in the country." It was a premature judgment, for those same sheep, ultimately, did not relinquish their freedoms, nor have they limited their democratic aspirations to simply voting at the polls. They have been behind a whole host of social movements, from the rise of the lower...
...bankers love to talk art and artists love to talk money, the line between commerce and creativity is not so much blurred as virtually erased. Take a look at Paris. The city of art museums is now a city of "brand museums"-foundations established to showcase the past and present output of a particular designer label. Louis Vuitton has one. So does the crystalmaker Baccarat and the silversmiths Christofle...
...reporter for a Warsaw youth newspaper, Ryszard Kapuscinski had never set foot outside Poland. Then, one day in 1956, his editor called him in and said he would be going to India as the paper's first foreign correspondent. Almost as an afterthought, the editor handed him "a present for the road" - a Polish translation of Herodotus' The Histories. For the next four decades, that book was the journalist's traveling companion through war, peace and journalism in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. As Kapuscinski writes in the newly published English translation of Travels with Herodotus...
...critic Jacques Barzun once famously (well, famously among sports fans) observed, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better know baseball." The citizens of NASCAR Nation would, today, reasonably argue with that. Please quote me no Yankee Stadium attendance figures; baseball at present is a disgrace--the subject of government inquiries, an industry as rife with known and suspected cheaters as Wall Street circa 2000. Is this the heart and mind of America? Maybe it is, but not as we'd like...
...senior class wrote a letter to Kirshner last month explaining the positive changes the Gehrkes brought to Quincy and asking that they be continued. Over half of Quincy’s senior class signed it. Kirshner came to Quincy to discuss the letter with students, but those present described his response as evasive and insincere. Kirshner did agree, in a brief e-mail a week later, to keep Quincy community night—but he appears to have missed the point. It wasn’t until a month after his visit—and a little pressure from those...