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...dirt track under the midday sun, Irrfan Khan waits at the starting line. The 42-year-old actor is playing a poor army recruit from a village in central India who runs just to get the extra ration of food allotted to athletes. At his first race, his character doesn't know what to do when the pistol sounds, so he prays. "You idiot! Run!" the starter screams. That spurs the soldier into action, and the naive confusion on his face turns into determination. Extras from the Bengal Sappers - actual young army recruits who live on the base in Roorkee...
...films made, has the backing of UTV, a thriving studio that specializes in multiplex movies. The young soldiers, some with wives and children in tow, follow Khan around the set, taking his picture with their mobile phones. After a few takes at the starting line, Khan has to run against several of the Sappers, who are extras in the film. His pale gangly legs don't quite match their tanned, toned ones, even after weeks of training. But as Khan runs, arms and legs pumping, his body seems to rejuvenate with the effort. He can't manage more than...
...Haiti to begin paying appropriate taxes? Does this mean Haitian leaders will direct foreign aid to health care facilities, water and sewage systems, education, job training and proper building construction? Or after this acute crisis has passed, will Haiti return to baseline poverty? The ethics of those who run this little country must change or be coerced to change...
...Huggers" [Feb. 1]: Last year, when I bought a pair of Converses to wear as my summer shoes, I made the same discovery Bryan Walsh did. I noticed right away how natural running felt. Walking has never felt better. So if you don't want to run in a pair of rubber foot gloves, you can get the same effect from a pair of good old-fashioned Chuck Taylors...
...older men who will school him in art history and seat him at tables with Bianca Jagger. Smith starts giving poetry readings that lead to a record contract. For these kids, it's childhood's end. The Rimbaud-Watusi years are just beginning. But the chocolate milk has run out for good...