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...emulate. Tatou in Chanel's beloved sailor shirt doesn't have "it" either, as much as you want her to. This is not her fault; this odd, nearly undefinable gift can be fostered, as we see with Coco herself, but not if you weren't already born with something that goes beyond grace or physical beauty. If it could be bottled, one wonders, would such a thing smell like Chanel...
...Najibullah Zazi is everything the FBI says he is, then the Afghan-born Denver airport-shuttle-bus driver represents a new kind of menace for the U.S. His arrest is a double blessing: it may have thwarted a terrorism plot, and it could give counterterrorism officials a goldmine of information on al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the state of the global jihad...
...Though he is an Asian Food Channel fixture (and its only Filipino chef), San Francisco-born Lim, 31 (pictured), is remarkably down-to-earth, his casual demeanor belying his French culinary training at London's Le Cordon Bleu. As you would expect from a TV personality, he's a supremely engaging host. But what people really come for is the food. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...lipstick and maroon-and-white polka dots, a sheer black veil slipping off her hair, Amva strides around the campus of Pesantran Kebon Jambu, which takes its name from the guava orchards that stood there before the school's mint-and-white mosque and tile-roofed dormitories. Born in the village to a family of respected kyais, or Islamic teachers, she learned her Arabic and the study of the Quran and the Islamic traditions at her father's pesantran. "My grandfather and parents always hoped someday I'd become a respected scholar," she smiles, pouring tea in her airy...
...there is one thing that distinguishes this 20-year-old from her peers, something that has made her the unwitting focus of an intense public debate about what exactly it means to be Chinese: the color of her skin. Born to a Chinese mother and an African-American father whom she has never met, the theater student rocketed into the public consciousness last month when she took part in an American Idol-esque TV show, Go! Oriental Angel. (See pictures of modern Shanghai...