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...Order. The crashing drums and singing guitar build until Bejar shouts the triumphant title line, then the synths kick in and the tune floats gloriously thereafter. His declarations are typically bizarre (“So, should you still want me / You can find me down at the caf?? / A little bit too busy being served / Sworn enemy of the waitresses there”) but here it works, lending a darker edge to an otherwise exuberant song. Many of the tracks gradually escalate in intensity to the brink of self-destruction. Just when a song is about to devolve into...
...more royalist of the two--comes as Bhutan grapples with its shifting place in the world. Squeezed between giants China and India, it has slowly opened up over the past few decades. There still may not be a single stoplight in the capital, Thimphu, but there are Internet caf??s. Bhutan's royal leaders are prodding their tiny nation into the rushing stream of globalization. "The concerns of the nation are the same--everyone is aware of them," says Dorji Namgay, an engineer, during a visit to his home by Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering, then a candidate...
...Origin of Caf?? Culture...
...captured his imagination, as the well-told story goes, and after a year of begging for a job, he was hired to do marketing. Two years later, a trip to Milan led to more inspiration. He returned to Seattle convinced that Starbucks should start opening espresso bars and bring caf?? culture to America. The founders of Starbucks, who had been trained by the legendary coffee retailer Alfred Peet, weren't so sure about expansion--wouldn't that obliterate the intimacy they'd established? So Schultz left to start another company, Il Giornale, but he returned in 1987 with $3.8 million...
...admissions decisions. The news that Ben-Eze is no longer Cambridge-bound reminded me of a moment late last year when I found myself hearing of the plight faced by a very different subset of foreign-born students in the quest for a Harvard education.In an outdoor campus caf?? within spitting distance of “the security fence”—the wall constructed to separate (sometimes disputed) Israeli land from the territory of the West Bank—a dean of East Jerusalem’s most prominent university told me that three Harvard students...