Word: bun
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Leung hardly looks the part of a modern Mata Hari, with her librarian glasses and hair in a bun. She lived with her husband and son in a $1.3 million house in the leafy L.A. suburb of San Marino. Although she called herself a venture capitalist and ran a consulting business from home, she spent much of her time courting California's political players. She was host of a fund raiser for the failed gubernatorial race of former L.A. mayor Richard Riordan and gave $10,000 to his campaign. When Chinese leaders Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji came to town...
...bagels are fresh. The cream cheese is piled thick. The salami is kosher. The address is ... Hong Kong? Yes, welcome to the place that's fast become a veritable oasis for expats looking for comfort food that's more pastrami than pork bun-Archie...
...spent much time in Oslo, you're probably thinking that the right answer to the quiz was d). But let me explain. Oslo, like the non-raisiny bits of the bun, is usually considered nice - nice but dull, all muted colors, leafy parks and elegant 19th century mansions. But look past the main tourist draws: the Viking Ship Museum; the 14th century Akershus Fortress, which has guarded Oslofjord through nine sieges; the sculpture garden with Gustav Vigeland's 14-m-tall Monolith, a phallic column of 121 writhing human figures. The city has plenty of other artistic, architectural and even...
...Bauer--never the Kumbaya-singing type to begin with--is in a far darker place, which is right where Sutherland, 35, wants him. Over an Atkins-y lunch at New York City's W Union Square Hotel (burger, medium rare; hold the bun), he says, "I wanted him to be very cold. I wanted him to be very hard. I wanted him to be mean...
...Kong branch of a foreign bank. That was before she decided that her brother, teen idol Edison Chen, was having way more fun than she was. Meetings were held, a contract was signed?and Chen popped out of the Hong Kong star-making microwave like a sugar-coated pineapple bun. Her first single, Future Tense, was released to local radio stations last month, and her debut album, a self-titled Canto-pop affair overlaid with R. and B. beats, will come out in early November. She has signed a deal to be in a movie directed by award-winner Chen...