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...wondrous bestiary tended by young Taran and his winsome would-be princess Eilonwy. The menagerie includes Hen Wen, the clairvoyant pig, whose bottom is rounder and wigglier than Madonna's; Gurgi, whose species is unknown, but who is definitely cute, cuddly and comical; the Fairfolk, minuscule fairy creatures who come and go in clouds of Disneydust; and the three witches, who are more funny than frightening. Leading the forces of evil is the Horned King. His body is skeletal, his voice sepulchral, and his eyes glow red like coals. His aide-de-camp is a little green horror known appropriately...
Consider it a sign of the times that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao chose to begin his trip to India last Saturday with a visit to the high-tech haven of Bangalore before traveling to New Delhi to talk politics. High-tech and business, naturally enough, are at the top of the agenda for this encounter between leaders of the world's emerging economic superpowers. Indians hope their Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can agree with Wen on ways to boost trade between the two countries and can reduce competition with China over access to the energy resources both nations need...
...politicians and bureaucrats still use shibboleths accumulated over a half-century of socialism to obstruct progress, the word China works like a charm. After all, which self-respecting Indian minister looks forward to being humiliated once more by his Chinese counterpart at the next international powwow? That's why Wen, perceived as the emissary of an ominous economic rival, does India so much more good than as the head of a chummy trading partner...
...epic" when they succeed and "overwrought" when they fail, films that swamp our eyes and yank at our hearts. Cinematographer Gu Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws...
...ideal world, Wen and Manmohan Singh, India's Prime Minister, would spend their time together eagerly discussing what they could learn from each other. China has been much more successful than India at creating a modern urban infrastructure and at eradicating really dire poverty. India has been better at seeding centers of excellence in high technology. (Wen will visit Bangalore, of course.) China, for all its astonishing success, still has to figure out how a monolithic, nondemocratic governmental structure can manage a decentralized market economy. In India, as a senior New Delhi-based U.S. official said recently, "that question...