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...Nine Lives, though, lies an elegiac keening. For as fast as rural people are streaming into India's exploding cities and logging companies are cutting down sacred groves, the traditions that have sustained the devout for generations are being threatened. The maker of sacred sculptures tells us how his son, though he has inherited the ancestral gift, wants to become a computer engineer, preferring a comfortable future to a way of life that has lasted over 700 years. The son of a dreadlocked Tantric sadhu is "an accountant with Tata." A temple dancer sees two teenage daughters die within...
...son were a watch, he might not be Swiss. No, that is not the caption to a Surrealist painting. Let me explain...
...increasingly fragile water system that was built by former Governor Pat Brown in the 1960s when the state's population was 11 million. Today, the Golden State has nearly 38 million residents and the population is expected to grow to 50 million. In a recent speech, Pat Brown's son, state Attorney General Jerry Brown, the former governor who leads in polls to succeed Schwarzenegger, recounted the perils of water politics in California. In 1981, Brown signed a bill to build a periphery canal, which would have transported Sacramento River water around the ecologically fragile Delta and directly into...
...Marley’s Ghost, for instance, is wildly over the top, so much so that his wailings and moans are at times incomprehensible. But Oldman’s other roles in the film—Scrooge’s soft-spoken financial partner Bob Cratchit and his son, Tiny Tim—are surprisingly subtle, providing much of the heart of “A Christmas Carol...
...national praise for his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He stepped down from the NYPD when Giuliani left office at the end of 2001 and joined Giuliani's consulting firm, where he reportedly earned millions, and published a best-selling memoir in 2001, The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice...