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...blue tide swept the??U.S. last week. Years of G.O.P.gerrymandering couldn't stop the Democrats from "thumpin'" the Republicans, as a chagrined President Bush described it. And it was an especially significant Election Day for big spenders and women, though we're still not sure what it meant for Michael J. Fox. Here are four interesting revelations about the midterms...
...equate the??fat contracts of today's African-American athletes with power, Rhoden argues in this provocative book. The white owners and agents are still calling most of the shots. Rhoden blames today's black athletes for failing to acquire real control and Michael Jordan for approaching black causes "with an apathy that borders on treason." The solution? Rhoden proposes an intersport, black-athlete trade association. That, he says, would really put the ball in the black players' hands...
...Most of the??world's big cities face a basic set of problems: traffic, pollution, crime. Then there is Delhi, which has an urban challenge that's nearly unique: too many monkeys. Hungry rhesus macaques roam the streets and even the subway, leap through treetops outside grand government buildings and scale fences around offices and private homes, searching for open windows and accessible food. Even Delhi's police headquarters has been raided by a monkey gang...
...enjoyed Poniewozik's essay, but I don't think the??U.S. is really "comfortable with the apocalypse." Despite all the bad things going on now, I think most Americans are oblivious, as they rarely read a newspaper or magazine and spend way too much time watching television sitcoms. But then, who am I to say that they don't have the best approach to handling impending doom? I guess I'll have to be worried for everyone...
...India last week, the??high-tech boomtown of Bangalore was wiped from the??map. No, it wasn't hit by a nuclear attack or a natural disaster. Instead, the city simply ditched its British colonial--era moniker in favor of Bengalooru, which, in the local Kannada language, means "town of boiled beans." Other big Indian cities have already taken new names--Bombay is now Mumbai and Madras became Chennai. According to Kannada writer and Bengalooru advocate U.R. Ananthamurthy, such moves are a long-overdue reassertion of local identity. "It was the colonizer who changed the name first," he says...