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...party in Washington in 1980, during his racy tabloid years. She accompanied Wilson to Hollywood and Morocco while he served as kibitzer, gadfly and ad hoc consultant on Charlie Wilson's War. "We lived through mud slides, rain and windstorms," he says. "Barbara even got to ride a camel. I've done that a lot before," he adds dryly. In the 1980s he rode up and down the Khyber Pass, looking like John Wayne, in an effort to cheer on the mujahedin...
Most people don't have anything on Somalia. It is a hot, poor swath of desert and swamp, sparsely populated by camel herders, mango farmers and fishermen. But in the mental map of Islamic militants, it looms large. The oldest al-Qaeda training camp in Africa, Ras Kamboni, is perched on Somalia's southeastern tip, surrounded by swampy jungle that makes it as inaccessible as the hill caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. Radical groups like al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, funded and trained by foreign militants supplied by Osama bin Laden, have been in Somalia for years. The same...
...bathroom I’ve seen here.RR: Is that how the walls got yellow?DC: Yeah, that’s what I heard. Back in ’67. There was a riot.RR: Would you consider yourself good at holding it in?DC: I’m a fucking camel, man. But Anna is holding a ten-hour rehearsal today and isn’t allowing anyone to pee. I think that’s how Copernicus died.[Note: Actually, Copernicus’s death was unrelated to urine, while fellow astronomer Tycho Brahe died of a bladder infection after...
...best-selling Asian artists are content to poke fun at their foreign patrons. Shanghai artist Zhou Tiehai, who has exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York City and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, gained international attention in the 1990s with his playful renditions of cigarette icon Joe Camel dressed as the Mona Lisa and other Western art figures. At the 1999 Venice Biennale, he exhibited fake magazine covers adorned with his face - a cheeky commentary on the overseas fame so many Asian artists crave. Now he produces soft-focus landscapes and chinoiserie portraits. Yet even though Zhou...
Finding itself once again in the friendly confines of Blodgett Pool, the Harvard men’s water polo team fired on all cylinders en route to a 14-4 victory over visiting Connecticut College. The Crimson (10-8) launched an audacious aquatic assault on the unsuspecting Camels, as nine different Harvard men found themselves on the scoreboard, including freshman David Roncarolo de Vries, who recorded the first goal of his collegiate career. Harvard cruised to a blistering pace in the first quarter, shutting out its opponents and taking an early 6-0 advantage. Junior netminder Jay Connolly, who recorded...