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...erotic pleasure and some of the most conservative social rules this side of Saudi Arabia on such questions as kissing in public. That paradox was on display once again this week in the firestorm that swept India following a seemingly innocuous - and obviously staged - celebrity kiss on the cheek at an AIDS-awareness event...
...lust, but the band’s topics typically have far more gravity—and variety. “Traffic and Weather” addresses all its topics—from crushing on DMV workers to being the target of hitmen—with perceptive, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, wit. The first two albums released by Fountains of Wayne, headed by New Jersey natives Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, were only moderately successful (read: largely ignored by the mainstream). With their 2003 record, “Welcome Interstate Managers,” they broke into the world...
...then there's the food. In a culture already obsessed with eating, the Tainanese are at the extreme end of the scale. On Yenping Street in the city's Anping district, a cheek-by-jowl crowd converges on weekends to inhale the aroma of xiao chi, or street snacks: fermented tofu, fried wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury...
...million to help with relief efforts, but the check was accompanied by a press release in which the Prince said it was time to get to the roots of the problem in the Middle East, which included Palestinians "slaughtered" by Israel "while the world turns the other cheek." Giuliani refused to accept the money. "There is no moral equivalent for [the 9/11 attacks]," he said. "And to suggest that there's a justification for it only invites this happening in the future. It is highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous...
...would you strengthen U.S. borders while at the same time respecting the civil and human rights of immigrants to America? -Martin Cheek from San Jose, California...