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...grim as those in the U.S., but I feel the U.S. kids are in better hands. I just hope that researchers quickly find a solution. It was refreshing to read that helpful schools like Celebrate the Children are available to those special kids. Subhobrata Basu Calcutta...
...every seesaw is balance. For me, that means Harry Potter, no, a feature documentary on the Beatles in India, yes. My latest film is based on The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri's novel of migration and displacement, which is itself a seesaw between two great cities, New York and Calcutta. Appropriately the film will premiere simultaneously in both cities in November, with a sophisticated marketing strategy and no horse carriages in sight. For my next film, Gangsta M.D., Hollywood will, for the first time, pay good money to buy rights from Bollywood, transplanting to Harlem the beloved story of a Bombay...
...professional life of the imperial bureaucrat could be extraordinarily interesting; his personal life usually was not. Unless they were lucky enough to be posted to a metropolitan center like Calcutta or Bombay, the ICS officers led a lonely existence in remote towns with few other Englishmen around, and yearned incessantly for the motherland. Their wives were even more miserable, and some naturally took to having affairs, especially in the hill station of Simla, where the thin mountain air was reputed to encourage promiscuity. As Gilmour notes, almost all the ICS men couldn't wait to retire, collect their pension...
...Still, Benedict has already allowed for a major shortcut to "St. John Paul," having waved the normal five-year waiting period after death for the opening of the beatification process. John Paul had done the same with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who was beatified quicker than anyone before, just six years after her 1997 death. The quickest to get all the way to sainthood under current procedures was Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, who died in 1975, and was canonized...
...never took him anywhere near the state of Texas. He worked on Capitol Hill for former Sen. Mark Hatfield, the Oregon Republican, and for Lawton Chiles, the former Democratic governor of Florida. He also had the distinction of being the late Mother Teresa's lawyer, and serving in her Calcutta mission. On Monday, seated under a picture of President Bush at prayer, Towey told a handful of reporters that he was leaving the White House to become president of St. Vincent College, a small Benedictine college in Latrobe, Pa., which, Towey noted, boasts the world's largest monastery...