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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...
...deliver them to safety, and the furor over the secularity law was put into a new perspective. The debate over head scarves in schools has been raging since the late 1980s: the government says the display of religious symbols undermines the mission of public schools to educate without regard to race, religion or gender; Islamic officials counter that the law is really intended to target Muslims. The debate had become so partisan that much of French society was convinced that Muslims put their religious beliefs ahead of allegiance to their country. But the events of last week changed many minds...
...Shortland's beautifully atmospheric coming- of-age drama set in the New South Wales snowfields town of Jindabyne, emotions fluctuate as wildly as teenage hormones, but for audiences the most consistent is astonishment. Hushed tones have followed Somersault since it was invited to screen in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in May. "It was thrilling, yeah, it was cool," Tom Schutzinger, of Sydney band Decoder Ring, who composed the film's haunting score (see side bar), says of Somersault's premiere at the film festival...
...reason for France's continued sabotage of U.S. foreign policy, especially with regard to Afghanistan, Iraq and terrorism, is a deep fear of the Muslim and Arab world. France will probably become a Muslim country in the future. The spirit of the Vichy government during the German occupation that Krauthammer referred to has been reborn today in the form of France's appease-the-Muslims policy. VINCENT P. FLURY Miami...
Many Jewish leaders regard the two measures as a double-barreled assault on their faith and the Jewish state. Says interfaith veteran Rabbi James Rudin: "They turn back much of the achievement of the last 40 years." But the resolutions actually reflect two different--and mutually hostile--constituencies. The divestment was backed by the liberal Presbyterian majority, which traditionally tempers its affirmation of Israel's right to exist with concern for Palestinian welfare. The margin for continuing Messianic funding was provided by an increasingly powerful evangelical minority. Some church activists seem honestly taken aback by the two measures being linked...