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...spectacle into a low-bud-get crusader for the oppressed. But as he tours the movie's setting in Dharavi, he revels in the prospect of making a film that combines Indian melodrama with economics. "It's 20 years from now," says Kapur, explaining the plot. "There's an upper city like Vegas and a lower city like this. And all the water is sucked up by the upper city." He points at a group of skinny girls slapping foamy saris in a puddle. "Those are my 'water rats,' my heroes. They live in dry pipes and crawl...
...Kapur intends the audience to draw global parallels. The "water rats" can be street kids from Bombay, Rio, even London. Paradise-club patrons are sex tourists. The upper-lower divide is the chasm between First and Third Worlds. Kapur the director is making a film written by Kapur the economist. "Bombay puts it all together, the contrast, the contradictions, in a way that you never have to think about in London or New York," he says. "And that's what the film will...
...fact, a month after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the Lebanese anti-Syrian opposition is in disarray. It has no clear leader. The Cedar Revolution can rally thousands of better-educated, upper-middle-class Lebanese in Martyrs' Square-it is mockingly called the BMW Revolution, locally-but it couldn't stop the reimposition of the pro-Syrian Prime Minister, Omar Karami, nine days after he was forced to resign. And so the Bush Administration finds its hopes for democracy in Lebanon almost completely dependent on the good faith of Hizballah-a wholly owned subsidiary of Iran, which...
...serve Kosovo." The alternative, if convicted, is life. - By Andrew Purvis Storm Over Sunset BRITAIN Home Secretary Charles Clarke imposed strict controls on 10 released terror suspects under a new antiterror bill approved after a marathon all-night session of Parliament. The House of Lords, Parliament's unelected upper chamber, finally endorsed the measure, which permits restrictions such as house arrest, after Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to give Parliament the right to review it within a year. The 10 suspects were released from three years' detention shortly before the bill's adoption. Selective Strike FRANCE Some 150,000 demonstrators...
...Force's FBI-like Office of Special Investigations, was sitting at a café in Baghdad's Green Zone last October when a bomb went off less than 10 ft. away. Frentz was blown into the air, the force literally ripping off her clothes and scorching her upper body. Shrapnel put a hole in her left leg the size of a tennis ball. Bits of the burgundy plastic café table and metal from the blast shot into her head, tearing her left ear 80% off. She remembers thinking, "Wrong place, wrong time...