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...Sibley relies on his own often exquisite paintings to illustrate his book, but he is of course aware that individual drawings can misrepresent their subjects. So he offers multiple images of each species. His page on the American robin, for example, presents four drawings of the bird in flight, two as seen from above and two as seen from below. Accompanying these are drawings of a juvenile robin, a regular adult, a "pale adult" and a slightly different form of the bird seen in eastern Canada. Another drawing portrays a group of robins in typical feeding postures on the ground...
...picture of Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush on your cover with the title THE CHOICE. To fail to include Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan among the presidential candidates was against the principles of democracy. There was a variety of choices for President, not just two. DAN SVIRSKY Indianapolis...
...movies in recent history, Will Smith plays a magical black caddie who helps Matt Damon win a golf tournament and the heart of Charlize Theron. In 1930s Georgia, no less. You'd think Smith would have used his powers to, oh, I don't know, stop a lynching or two. Or maybe, at the very least, used them to bag Theron for himself. It's a sad day when the PGA is showcasing minority role models that are more inspirational than Hollywood...
...course, about a white guy in blackface. And don't get me started on Driving Miss Daisy, or the fact that the black guy who played the fourth Ghostbuster didn't get to do much of anything. But recently, Hollywood has been working especially hard to establish two onscreen stereotypes. The first is the Magical African-American Friend. Along with Bagger Vance, MAAFs appear in such films as What Dreams May Come (1998), the upcoming Family Man (co-starring Don Cheadle) and last year's prison drama The Green Mile. In that film, Michael Clarke Duncan plays a superstrong, superdumb...
...beloved Indian movie star kidnapped by the bandit Veerappan; after 108 days in jungle captivity; in Bangalore, India. Veerappan, who is accused of 120 murders but has eluded capture for 30 years and is regarded as a hero among Tamil separatists, took a $2.17 million ransom raised by two Indian state governments and retreated to his hideout, forgoing his demand for the release of government prisoners...