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...Ok, so if you're a loyal In the Know reader (blocking group, mom, Gwyneth, that's you), you remember how a while ago I bitched about the conspicuous absence of Indians in Hollywood movies. (Occasionally, an Indian was cast as a convenience store clerk, a cabbie, or a Mexican.) But Hollywood's running out of ideas (I dare you to count the cliches in Rules of Engagement, Gossip, and Where the Heart Is) so they decide to turn to the one culture they've marginalized the most. And now, all of a sudden, India's cool. Hooray! Bollywood...
...fear of executing the wrong man (a more popular line of demurral these days) is an unreliable argument against all capital punishment. What if there are many witnesses to a murder? What if it's Hitler? Is capital punishment OK in cases of unmistakable guilt? George W. Bush says that he reviews each case to make sure he is absolutely certain a person did it before he allows a Texas execution to go ahead...
...simple, and unfortunately the Pocket PC turns out to be no exception. Microsoft's idea of making the system more intuitive seems to be limited to moving the "Start" menu from the lower-left corner of the screen to the upper left and adding an almost invisible button marked OK in the top right, which you need to tap all the time but invariably forget. Too often I was more conscious of operating the system than concentrating on the task at hand...
...holding a Week Without Scowling. I'm a Methodist, born and raised on Sundays at church, but even for me the name "Jesus Week," brings up stereotypes: images of a tent revival in the Yard, with people faith-healing pit kids ("Ye art afflicted by Satan!" "I am Satan." "OK! See ye later...
...course of the stock market over the few weeks so as to resemble--to continue in the same literary theme--a minefield. And an air of uncertainty, as any devotee of the Wall Street Journal knows, constitutes the deadliest economic poison of them all. Without getting too technical (ok, without any attempt at a sophisticated analysis) it seems as if things are going to get a lot worse before they get better...