Word: cambodia
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...official. The world's hottest human is in utero. ?Yes, I'm pregnant,? Angelina Jolie told a charity aid worker in the Dominican Republic, according to People magazine. After months of cozily co-parenting two international adoptees, Cambodia-born Maddox, 4, and Ethiopia-born Zahara Marley, 1, Hollywood's improbably gorgeous globe-trotting couple Jolie, 30, and her Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Brad Pitt, 42, have decided to procure a new baby the old-fashioned way. The very public but oft-denied romance began amid rumors that Pitt and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston separated because he wanted...
...teaches at Harvard, Ghosh was born in India, and grew up in Bangladesh, before moving to Egypt for two years in later life. Where another writer with his formal standing might simply lament the chaos that broke out across Asia after the tsunami, or the aftermath of genocide in Cambodia, Ghosh writes from within the chaos, involved...
...Circumstances, Ghosh begins to find an answer in everyday humanity and its resilience. Faced by those rioters in Delhi in 1984, some women stood up to them and, miraculously, reversed the tide of violence. Following the destruction of their country by the Khmer Rouge, a handful of survivors in Cambodia in 1981 put on a dance performance, piecing their lives together like "rag pickers." Writers have to be solitaries, Ghosh recalls V.S. Naipaul saying, and yet, he seems to feel, to be useful they have to be participants...
...uptown Manhattan during rehearsals for Pan Asian Rep's Cambodia Agonistes, conductor and composer Jack Jarrett, 71, taps a key on his laptop to tweak the tempo for the dancers. Looking bohemian in a black turtleneck and wire-rimmed specs, Jarrett's doing his musical director thing. Back home in Greensboro, N.C., he's got another job--as vice president of R&D for software start-up VirtuosoWorks...
...HANGED. NGUYEN TUONG VAN, 25, an Australian convicted of attempting to smuggle 400 g of heroin to Melbourne; in Singapore. Nguyen picked up the heroin in Cambodia and was caught in transit at Singapore's Changi Airport. Australian officials lobbied unsuccessfully to stop his execution. Singapore rejected Nguyen's request to have a final hug with family members, but allowed his mother to hold his hand and touch his face and hair the day before he was hanged. Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock called the execution a "barbaric...