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Unlike other wildfires--acts of God or of fickle thunderclaps or of anonymous careless cigarette smokers--the origins of this debacle are known. And the recriminations are starting. Roy Weaver, the Bandelier superintendent, was put on paid leave. He said he was not aware of the seven-hour-old National Weather report and had based his go-ahead for the burn on spot forecasts. The National Weather Service, however, insists it had faxed the report to Weaver's office. "This did not have to happen," says Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico. "I believe, based on common sense, that somebody...
Makhmalbaf shared the Jury prize with Sweden's Roy Andersson, whose "Songs from the Second Floor" is a handsomely shot series of tragicomic tableaux and trompes l'oeil. The screenplay award went to Neil LaBute's "Nurse Betty," with Renee Zellweger as a young widow propelled by shock into a soap-opera world...
Jason R. McNeely '00 and Kate D. Earls '00 were the soloists. Roy Kosuge '99, a Crimson editor, arranged the piece...
...celebrity to draw attention to environmental issues. TV actor TED DANSON founded the American Oceans Campaign, Academy Award winner SUSAN SARANDON is an avid supporter of Mark Plotkin's Amazon Conservation Team, STING throws an annual rain-forest benefit concert in New York City's Carnegie Hall, writer ARUNDHATI ROY has campaigned to stop the building of dams on India's Narmada River, Hong Kong actor CHOW YUN-FAT has done promotional work for the World Wildlife Fund, and Brazilian singer GILBERTO GIL was so worried about water pollution in his hometown of Salvador, Bahia, that he joined the Green...
...probably no coincidence that some two years after Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things became an international best seller, more novels by young writers with roots in India are showing up on this side of the world. "Editors will grab at what's in the air," says Sybil Steinberg, fiction editor at Publishers Weekly. But the next Arundhati Roy may not materialize soon. She is a rare delight: a gifted writer who looks like the village beauty in a Satyajit Ray film. Nevertheless, what is called Indian-English fiction hasn't had so much attention since Muslim clerics...