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...digress about the fitness thing. Our seats happened to be positioned by one of the side stage annexes, and Madonna performed two songs about 20 feet away. The woman is in the kind of shape that makes you wonder when she DOESN'T work out. She had muscles in her legs that anatomists have not previously diagrammed. True, after singing and dancing for 20 minutes she needed to towel off backstage, and in her absence we were left with abstract modern dance pieces that made Shanghai Surprise look like a cogent piece of storytelling. But for 47? Good lord...
...Cambridge natives think Harvard students are pretentious, it’s no wonder they had such a bad reaction to David. R. Slavitt...
...disparity between rich and poor, there is also an increase in deforestation and pollution of rivers, groundwater and air, which could lead to environmental collapse. Ravi Sharma Calgary, Canada I thoroughly enjoyed your cover story on the rapid changes in India. As an Indian living in England, I often wonder what the true cost of this economic boom is, especially the impact on Indian values and culture. Extended families are becoming fragmented, the young have little pride in their culture, and there is contempt for everything that is old. In contrast, a developed nation like England is steeped in tradition...
Despite the relative quiet in Beirut on Tuesday, the jittery sense of desperation is getting worse. The Westerners are being evacuated, but that's not necessarily good news for the Lebanese staying put. Once the Westerners are gone, people on the streets wonder what will hold the Israelis back. The lull in the bombing, in fact, is widely seen as a deliberate break by the Israelis to allow the foreign nationals...
...inaction, it's not surprising that any U.N. Security Council resolution that gets a unanimous vote is almost automatically dismissed as an empty gesture. And if it takes place in the middle of a raging Middle East crisis, as last weekend's North Korea resolution did, it's a wonder it gets noticed at all. All of which makes the resolution that was passed last weekend to help rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions in the wake of its July 4 missile tests so unusual...