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...story. He says he recognized his assailants from the train: he had asked them to give up their seats for a pregnant woman. They glared at him, then furtively tailed him. "Young men like them have no respect for the older generation," Onizawa laments. "After the economic bubble burst, middle-aged men all lost their confidence. So what the kids today saw growing up were these sad, pathetic father figures...
...third girl hit by her father because she chatted with a shepherd, then forced into a loveless marriage with a rich man who will pay her family's rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also burst into comic atonalities: the rich man who has a security alarm on his refrigerator (it's where he keeps his money), the shepherd on a cell-phone call to a pal in St. Petersburg. Life is sad; life is odd; life goes...
...Jabal al-Akhdhar Hotel fed us a sumptuous Omani meal and sent us on our way with a detailed map of the area. Almost immediately we found the villages of Saiq, Al Qisha and Al Shrijah. Here, adobe and stone houses are built into the hillsides, terraced orchards burst with apricots, pomegranates, olives and grapevines, and curious children come out to greet visitors. The real risk you take in the Jebel Akhdar is that you may never want to leave...
...attorney Michael Sherman asked Tucciarone why he never told police in the past and only came forward in April this year. Tucciarone replied by saying he had once read in a newspaper that Skakel was overseas. "That's another country's problem, not ours here," he said to a burst of laughter from the gallery, jury and even the judge...
...breath used to be furtively treated with a smuggled Certs. But oral-care products have become chic: the hottest is Cool Mint Listerine PocketPaks, stamp-size and gel-coated pieces of paper that dissolve on the tongue and deliver a burst of mouthwash. Released last year, the strips are a hit with teens and young singles who openly pop the tabs in trendy night spots. At the Oscars, Hugh Grant was captured on camera placing one into Sandra Bullock's mouth. Handbag designer Kate Spade and celebrity makeup artist Bobbi Brown have their own lines of breath mints, and toothbrushes...