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...Remember the Titans,” this innovative program would try to evoke the feel of the Old South through athletic challenges designed to bring out the conflicts and tensions of life below the Mason-Dixon Line. A cast of young twenty-something Los Angeles-area cocktail waitresses, aspiring actors, and pharmaceutical reps will feel the sting of prejudice and the guilt of oppressing others while competing to win one million dollars in cash.But this show is so much more than merely a new twist on an old genre. In a move unprecedented in television history, “Survivor...
...deal with a lot of them since the Chinese company acquired the computer-manufacturing business of U.S. giant IBM last year. On his monthly jaunts to Lenovo's new global headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., He, 43, complains there "aren't so many good Chinese restaurants." But he finds the cocktail parties that precede business dinners even harder to endure...
...numbers harder than would the bubonic plague.Oh, the dreaded QR. But do not to fear, Humanities Harvard, even if you can’t pass a course on counting people. Everyone knows the Core’s raison d’être is to provide a curriculum in cocktail conversation, and any numbers that come our way over a cold martini will be more than manageable...
Let’s break this down, shall we?SOCIAL: Okay, looking good so far. Social things are usually fun. Dances, cocktail parties, getting to know people. Hmm, maybe this is the Core where I get to learn about interpersonal relationships. Maybe it’s the Core where I’ll find my one true love!ANALYSIS: Fuck.Turn that frown upside down, dear reader. Social Analysis isn’t the sexiest of Core categories, but it ain’t the dreariest either. (Hello, Moral Reasoning.) Besides, many of you won’t have to worry...
...train station, and nobody's going anywhere. And that's just the way they want it. On a flatbed train car, under the latticed arches designed by Gustave Eiffel, Ghorwane, a local band that have been fusing African rhythms with politics since the early '80s, are shaking up a cocktail of sweaty fans. It's buzzing, but it's not full - not everybody in Mozambique's capital can afford the $6 door fee at Sr Mfumo Jazz Bar (formerly Chez Rangel). Most people still get by on just $40 a month. It's been 10 years since I first visited...