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Last-Minute Meals. If you haven't been invited to one of the inaugural balls, check OpenTable.com, the online reservation site, for dining specials at Washington D.C. restaurants. Alain Ducasse's Adour at the St. Regis and the classic Washington power-lunching spot, Old Ebbitt Grill, are still taking reservations. The local eatery Oakville Grille & Wine Bar in Bethesda is offering a special prix-fixe menu - the three-course "Red, White & Blue" meal for $30, which includes a "Blueberry Bama" or a "Very Berry Biden" martini on Inauguration...
...long studio show at 6 p.m., followed by the original telecast of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Before the season starts, the MLB Network will primarily feature sports news, original documentaries and spring-training reports for every team. The channel will broadcast World Baseball Classic games in March and 26 regular-season games during the year. The network's signature show is slated to be MLB Tonight, an eight-hour nighttime highlights program featuring updates and occasional live coverage of ongoing games. Think of ESPN's popular highlight program Baseball Tonight on, er, steroids...
...will always be men like Botts who are fooled by the country's freewheeling reputation and corrupt police force into thinking that smuggling out heroin in cans of shaving foam is a sensible way to earn a living. The second question is tougher. But apart from Alex Garland's classic novel The Beach, the books I see most tourists reading in Thailand are the his-and-hers prison memoirs The Damage Done (convicted Australian heroin trafficker Warren Fellows' account of life in Bang Kwang Central Prison) and Forget You Had A Daughter (by British smuggler Sandra Gregory). Wherever...
...Compared to its rivals, Nightmare in Bangkok is, to lift a phrase from the classic backpacker T shirt, "same same but different." In Thailand, Botts gets jailed for heroin smuggling, but not before being incarcerated in his native Hawaii, several times, for stealing things from cars. "You could write a book on this," says a police officer, studying his lengthy rap sheet. "Please don't," is the reader's quietly muttered invocation - but Botts does...
...idea of Judaism can be represented through a classic Talmudic dilemma: You are walking along by the river and there are two people drowning. One is Rabbi [Meir] Kahane, and the other is the Dalai Lama. You can only save one of them. For whom will you jump? If you jump for Rabbi Kahane because genetically he's Jewish, you belong to a different camp than mine, because I would jump for the Dalai Lama. As much as he's not genetically Jewish, he's my Jewish brother when it comes to my value system. That's the difference between...