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Oscar producers to mute sound during DEAD STARS montage, ending cruelest popularity contest ever...
...village of Panidhar is a cluster of 18 mud, brick and bamboo houses in a poor, wet corner of eastern India. Its problems will sound familiar to anyone who has traveled through the country's thick rural darkness. Panidhar's 195 residents live on rice and fish from the surrounding paddy fields and ponds; lucky children get vegetables and lentils, too, but few go to school. The brick factory across the Ichamati River sends boats to fetch a few of the young men; the rest have left for cities many miles away...
...anywhere else in India. Bengali-speaking Muslims, both Indian and Bangladeshi, were once brought in to work as seasonal labor, and they now account for more than 30% of the state's population. Their numbers have made them a significant political force and have generated a frustration that will sound familiar to any country dealing with a large influx of migrants from a poorer country. "They take all the jobs," says Shibshankar Chatterjee, a journalist who is writing a book on migration in the northeast. "They are very cheap labor...
Voice of a Black God Michael Kinsley's essay was on the mark, but he made a glaring omission [Jan. 26]. If God should choose to talk to us, we would expect him to sound like James Earl Jones. But what about Mrs. God? Why, of course, it would be the voice of a marvelous black woman, Maya Angelou. And what a heavenly sound that would be. A. Lynn Buschhoff, DENVER...
...that Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones sound black - they sound American. The current voices of God are a celebration not of America embracing the black man but of America shedding its racial pretense (which is more than I can say for Kinsley's essay). Mark Still, PHILADELPHIA...