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...discovering yourself as you make the films," he says. "And it's difficult to be objective." Adoor is a cinematic throwback, an auteur who controls every major aspect of his films: writing, directing, producing, editing. Before filming he shares his scripts only with his longtime cinematographer, Ravi Varma, the sole person aside from Adoor to provide genuine creative input in an Adoor Gopalakrishnan movie. "The actors should be free," he says, "but not so free as to go against my interpretation of the role...
...Charles James, the recently appointed head of the Justice Department's antitrust division. (In a Senate hearing last week, Justice also disputed charges that it was politically motivated in its attempts to settle the $20 billion lawsuit against the tobacco industry, another big Republican contributor.) Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma called the charges unfair and pointed out that competitors such as Sun Microsystems and Oracle, which have cheered Justice on, are also big political contributors...
...firm's loyalties are in question too. Earlier this year, I.G.I. was hired by Microsoft (through one of its law firms) for a weeklong assignment. "We weren't told by I.G.I. that they were working against us," says Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma. "Normally we are told of conflicts of interest...
Others, perhaps with good reason, were not so accepting. I had to put up with the insults and the threats from those who didn't understand that being "Jay K. Varma" (the job) is different from being Jay (the person...
...Varma's inaccuracies pale, though, in comparison to Michael K. Mayo's editorial ripping into Harvard's fans. Mayo claims that our fans "can barely spit out a 'Rah.'" in fact, he says that Harvard "rahs its way into silence" while "Boston College students scream along with their band, Northeastern fans sing their team's praises to the rafters and Boston University spectators nearly bring the Garden balcony to the floor." Mayo demeans the effort of every one of the students who went to the game. The editorial is filled with factual errors. His comments regarding the Boston College...