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...cocktail circuit. With steep, cobbled lanes, wooden houses, courtyards, and prayer flags fluttering in the wind, Dukezong was little more than a ramshackle residential area of 15,000 inhabitants two years ago. Now, it's being buffed and polished for the outside world, with B-52 cocktails served alongside bai jiu - the local firewater - and macchiatos almost as readily available as yak-butter tea. The bars attract a lively, mixed crowd of residents, young travelers, artists and adventurers, doubtless hoping to find their own Shangri-La. Chances are they'll do a better job than Hilton, who never went...
...cocktail circuit. With steep, cobbled lanes, wooden houses, courtyards and prayer flags fluttering in the wind, Dukezong was little more than a ramshackle residential area of 15,000 inhabitants two years ago. Now, it's being buffed and polished for the outside world, with B-52 cocktails served alongside bai jiu-the local firewater-and macchiatos almost as readily available as yak-butter tea. The bars attract a lively, mixed crowd of residents, young travelers, artists and adventurers, doubtless hoping to find their own Shangri-La. Chances are they'll do a better job than Hilton, who never went...
...homecoming more fitting for royalty or a rock star than a monk. The 1,000 or more devotees who waited in the chilly dawn at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport clutched bouquets of flowers, sang songs, and jostled for a better view. For a bunch of Buddhists, they were pushy: when Thich Nhat Hanh finally stepped out of immigration, they surged forward with a force that crushed people against doors and tore sandals, hats and gloves off dozens of others. "I touched him! I touched him!" shouted one woman, who then burst into tears...
...Dean campaign showed that when you start getting enough individuals engaged, and start adding enough small contributions together, you can wind up with something pretty big. But political money comes in all shapes and sizes, and now some bigger donors are also beginning to throw their weight around. Matt Bai had a widely cited cover story in the New York Times Magazine this summer about a growing network of wealthy progressives known as the “Phoenix Group” which has set about constructing a new extra-party infrastructure—potentially everything from think tanks...
...where does all this activity leave the Democratic Party? In his Times Magazine piece, Bai speculated that the combination of MoveOn’s small donor Internet outreach and the emergence of a big-donor backed progressive extra-party infrastructure could spell curtains for the party as we know...