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...India (as recent events suggest) remains just as Indian as it's always been, and yet it's also ever more in tune with the world outside. Insofar as multiculturalism is the theme of the new millennium, urban Indians-growing up with several languages and used to juggling cultures and traditions-have an edge over people from, say, a unicultural, often homogeneous Japan. Insofar as English is the global village's lingua franca, voluble, language-loving Indians brought up on Tennyson and Tagore are holding the festivals seldom heard of in Japan. And insofar as the most dominant new force...
...fund-raising burdens were exhausting him. So if Rev. Platt was willing to create an extra place for a student whose entrance exam grades were (according to his "father") two As and one B instead of three As, was that so bad if future Pembrokians would benefit to the tune...
...power. If actor Rob Lowe really were a key domestic policy adviser to the President, he would have dark circles under his eyes, and worry lines. But who wants to see that? The thoughtful debate on current issues by a well-rested and talented cast is why we tune...
...seconds of silence for the victims of Sept. 11; apparently that was considered a roughly equal trade.) They're pretty much the sort of thing that caused the Taliban to outlaw all those TV sets. But that's what makes them American; that's why we tune in loyally by the millions to get drunk and laugh at them. That's what makes them great...
Despite all the shortcomings of the Academy Awards, 40 million of us will still tune in Sunday night. After all, there’s something special about the possibility that a gladiator-turned-mathematician might take home Hollywood’s greatest prize—so special that I’ll be glad to stay awake through every last musical number...