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...heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Mira Nair ’79 of Salaam Bombay and Mississipi Masala fame has often been criticized for selling Indian poverty in documentary form to the West. Monsoon Wedding represents a stark departure from these previous features. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, it instead celebrates the joys of excess and consumption, perfectly illustrated through the analogy of a wedding...
...chilling brutality of this murder juxtaposed with Daniel Pearl’s last words illustrate three very important points. First, they show the honor and dignity of this great reporter; second, they represent a stark and awful demonstration of how evil the radical fanaticism of our enemy is; and finally they are an alarming indication of the intensity of the widespread anti-Semitism in much of the Muslim world...
...while watching a live press conference on TV one day in August, Abdullah became furious at the way the President, he felt, was putting all the blame for the spiraling violence on Yasser Arafat and none on Israel. He instructed Saudi Ambassador to Washington Prince Bandar to deliver a stark message: relations were at a crossroads, and Saudi Arabia would now look after its own interests, thank...
...Kaplan’s series, “Leaders Indicating Leading Indicators,” two separate paintings present the conflict between NAFTA and the Zapatistas of Chapas as a stark contrast between the urban and the rural, the supposedly civilized and the indigenous. One of the paintings is a straightforward representation of political leaders discussing current affairs; the other painting features childlike men and women wearing ski masks—worn by the Zapatistas as an act of solidarity—pointing to a vague clearing in the jungle. This clearing, Kaplan explains, represents the communities of native Mexicans...
...CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, which closely follows his own experiences growing up among killers, prostitutes and drug addicts on the streets of Harlem in the 1950s; in New York City. Published in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement, Brown's stark novel sold four million copies. DIED. ANI PACHEN, 69, courageous Tibetan resistance leader who led 600 men in a guerrilla war against the invading Chinese; in Dharamsala, India. Inheriting the leadership role from her father, a former chieftain, Pachen was captured and imprisoned for 21 years after attempting...