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...commentary on the celebration of the country's 50th anniversary of independence from the British, Salman Rushdie provides a brutal but honest assessment of the grim political and social scenario in India [WORLD, Aug. 11]. I often wonder what has wounded India more--200 years of colonial rule or 50 years of pseudosocialist government by lackluster, dishonest politicians. RAJENDRA K. ANEJA Sao Paulo...
...roller-coaster ride, but that is what makes life in India highly interesting. Rushdie talked about the corrupt politics, the poverty, the strife and the poor attitude of the people. But India has also been responsible for many great minds, philosophers, physicists and artists. India's 50th anniversary of independence is a time to look at the silver lining, not the cloud--a time to fill people with hope, not despair. LAXMI NAIR Boston
...Wine and Roses), but what Vidal called "a golden age for the dramatist" was over. So was Coe's influence on the televiewer's weekly diet. On Broadway he produced The Miracle Worker and All the Way Home; in the movies he directed A Thousand Clowns. But by his 50th birthday Coe had become a cultural afterthought. He died...
When is a party more than a party? When a future King is throwing it, publicly, for his mistress. The British press was all atwitter about the implications of the fancy 50th birthday knees-up that CHARLES threw for CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES at his Highgrove estate. Camilla turned up early in a dazzling diamond necklace, possibly a gift from Charles, to greet guests--including her ex-husband. The bash was held in a 120-ft.-long marquee in Highgrove's meticulously tended gardens. Everyone was happy except perhaps the local vicar, who pointed out to the BBC a few days...
Jewel left the 49th state for the 50th, but she found Hawaii unappealing and very quickly made her way to her mother. She won a partial scholarship to an art school in Michigan, and after graduating, she sang on street corners to raise train fare to rejoin her mother, who had moved to San Diego. There Jewel worked in a string of dead-end jobs. When mother and daughter ran out of money, they moved from Carroll's tiny apartment and lived in Jewel's Volkswagen van. Her mother bought her own van, and the two often parked side...