Hailing a taxi in this chaotic city can be a gamble in the best of times. When Cyrus Broacha is at the wheel, all bets are off. Mr. Broacha, the manic host of a daytime show on MTV India, often masquerades as a blind cabdriver, using a hidden camera to record the reactions of passengers. Other times, he shows up in the corner barbershop, brandishing a pair of garden shears at unsuspecting patrons.|India has created one of most plentiful television markets in world in which pell-mell...
The atmosphere in the Tulalip ceremonial house on this rainy night overpowers the senses. Two roaring fires light the dark; pungent smoke fills the air, stinging the eyes. Sparks fly up through openings in the high-pitched cedar ceiling like bright souls to the black, starless sky. Men with painted faces beat on skin drums. They shake carved sticks called ``kuich-meins'' tied with hundreds of rattling deer hooves. Women slap wooden paddles and chant.A thousand...
STEVE Waugh saw his Holy Grail disappear forever last night, but still felt it was a feather in the cap of a team with nothing more to give. Cutting a totally exhausted figure as he spoke of Australia's two-wicket loss in yesterday's pulsating Test finale, Waugh spoke with pride of his side's effort to come close to snatching what would have been the victory that crowned his career.Beating India in India was his last unfulfilled career goal and yesterday...
STEVE Waugh saw his Holy Grail disappear forever last night, but still felt it was a feather in the cap of a team with nothing more to give. Cutting a totally exhausted figure as he spoke of Australia's two-wicket loss in yesterday's pulsating Test finale, Waugh spoke with pride of his side's effort to come close to snatching what would have been the victory that crowned his career.Beating India in India was his last unfulfilled career goal and yesterday...
Twenty-two cricket players took to the field in uniforms as white as the British gentry who popularized the game 200 years ago.From a distance, with their white shin pads on white trousers, their white shoes and socks, the figures in the center of the greensward could have been lifted right out of a Victorian novel.These, however, were not the playing fields of Eton, but a park just outside Fort Lauderdale in one of the county's predominantly black neighborhoods. Rock...