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Steven Spielberg is no stranger to India. He shot part of Close Encounters of the Third Kind here in 1977 and the second Indiana Jones installment was set in a temple and dungeon complex in colonial-era India. (The movie was initially banned in India by angry politicians who said it perpetuated negative stereotypes.) Now Spielberg may be going back to the subcontinent - not for a new movie but for cash, thanks to a reported tie-up with Reliance Big Entertainment, part of the sprawling conglomerate run by Bombay-based billionaire Anil Ambani. The deal, first reported by the Wall...
...year ago, a slender girl called Cloud had no idea she would dedicate her life to lifting disks of iron above her head. Then a stranger came to her remote village in eastern China's Shandong province, took detailed measurements of her shoulder width, thigh length and waist circumference--and announced she would have the honor of serving her motherland as a weight lifter. The then 14-year-old daughter of vegetable farmers had little choice in the matter. She had been chosen to be a cog in China's vast sports machine, a multibillion-dollar apparatus designed with...
...stranger ironies the Constitution has bestowed on American politics is this: some 50 million people just finished choosing the parties' two nominees in a grueling, yearlong primary campaign that cost millions of dollars and captivated the world. But when it comes to picking vice-presidential nominees, only two people on the planet get a vote: John McCain and Barack Obama. Between an explosion of democracy in the spring and an even bigger explosion of self-determination in the fall is a brief interlude of, well, something that Vladimir Putin could probably live with...
...makes me see the United States differently, but I don't know that it makes me think of my past differently. In the United States, people are allowed to talk about money. You'll be on an airplane, and one stranger will say to another, "Boy, that's a really nice watch." And the other guy will say, "Well, it cost me $4,000." People would be horrified in France or England if you said that...
...Turn to the Left India is no stranger to violent rebellion, as the decades-long struggle in Kashmir attests. But the separatist conflict there and low-level insurgencies in the country's remote northeast grind on at the periphery, driven by groups agitating to break away. The Maoists, like their ideological brothers in Nepal who recently took power through elections, are different. They want to overthrow the government in New Delhi and install a new one, and they have taken their fight to the geographic heart of the country, to the scrubby woodland and remote, poor villages that blanket...