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...says a beaming 13-year-old. She chats about professional wrestling on TV, and like every other student assigned to this neatly-kept, lush park, moans about the pink rubber gloves they are obliged to wear. By noon, when it's time to board the buses, a fun, friendly chatter abounds. "It's much better than being in class," says an excited girl from Holy Spirit...
...kitchen never stops evolving - it will always be a place where art is created," says Belgian chef Joeri Schreurs. That's the sort of culinary chatter you might expect to hear in the world's dining capitals - but Koh Samui? Once upon a time, the only foods associated with this backpacker destination were hallucinogenic-mushroom omelettes, street-corner noodles and [an error occurred while processing this directive] barroom burgers. But today, the island off Thailand's east coast is heading upmarket. Slick new resorts are luring older, more affluent travelers, and in their wake has come an army of chefs...
...gaffe was followed by a series of muddled apologies and non-apologies that elevated the obscure racial slur into headline status. Then, amid speculation about Allen's possible Jewish heritage, Allen told a reporter that questions about that heritage amounted to "aspersions" on his character. Never mind that the chatter turned out to have a concrete source: Allen's mother was, in fact, Jewish, though Allen took pains to emphasize he was not raised in the faith. "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch," he boasted on the day he finally confirmed his mother's background. "And my mother...
...control booths from which they operate the doors and surveil the corridors using sound monitors and cameras. To keep the inmates occupied, they offer crossword puzzles, bingo and Jeopardy competitions through flyers or through a closed-circuit TV channel. "The Muslims are obsessed with the games, they chatter endlessly about the possible answers," Rudolph wrote. The winners are rewarded with a candy bar or a picture of themselves. Being a Westerner puts Rudolph at an advantage in the trivia games, and his foreign neighbors depend on his help. "Moments after they post the questions on Monday morning, the yelling begins...
...make you see what it looks like in sunlight. In short takes "like scenes in a film," Carlyon plunges from the tranquil present to the midst of battle and back. "All is quiet, and the place speaks to you," he writes at Villers-Bretonneux. "You can hear the chatter of machine guns and the shouts of men on the ground." He doesn't see himself as a military historian. "I'm telling a story," he says. But "I don't go beyond the facts." Digging like an archaeologist through mountains of material?histories, news reports, letters, diaries, photos?he picks...