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...Home Again Re "Why do so many of India's stars live abroad?" [Feb. 13]: I applaud the essay by Vir Sanghvi, editorial director of the Hindustan Times, in which he asks why Indians are more successful outside India than at home. Alas, a similar problem plagues Nigeria. Those born in the 1970s who left to study in Britain and the U.S. now want to return home and apply the skills and business practices learned in the West. But their enthusiasm is met with scorn, suspicion and envy. I wonder whether Nigerians feel betrayed or fear the Western work ethic...
...large, this is a compromise the public accepts. "We know the vast majority of encounters are fake," says Hindustan Times editor Vir Sanghvi. "We do not think that this is a perfect situation, but in common with the rest of the middle class we have come to the regrettable conclusion that there is no real alternative." For a professional enforcer like Sharma, success isn't just measured in body bags or reduced gang violence, but invitations to celebrity parties and near unanimous media praise. "I don't enjoy killing," says Sharma. "But after we shoot some mobster, his victims look...
...WOMEN HUMAN?, Dorothy L. Sayers notes that Latin, which helped shape Western thought, provided two words for "man"--homo, meaning person or being, and vir. referring to the sexual side. For women there was only one word, femina. It carried the second, sexual sense; no way existed for referring to a woman merely as a person. French has preserved but varied the gap; the only formal words for female people are those which also mean "daughter" or "wife," In English, as it happens, we lack such an immediate, glaring linguistic wrong. But that happenstance merely makes the gap more difficult...
...with packaging than with fresh content. Books that float in the tub, or smell of perfume when they are scratched, or assume the shapes of trains, or pop up with paper cutouts, can take the place of stories that children need to frame their perceptions of life. "It is vir tually impossible to earn a living at writ ing for children unless you're well estab lished," says Arnold Lobel, 47. "The only people who can still do it are us old guys...
...shared intimacy, even love, among the performers and the choreographer that make Davidsbündlertänze a pleasure to watch. One sees Farrell's stabbing attacks and abandoned extensions, Mazzo's charm and pliancy, Watts' unguarded enthusiasm, Martins' cool, assessing mastery. There is little vir tuosity here; steps seem less important than the flow and the feeling...