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...lyrics, "Step we gaily, on we go ?" was more than her resolve could bear. It's a classic Kennedy moment, the kind of divine comedic intervention that lights up her best fiction and overwhelms the bleakest corners. There could be no more astute and no less tedious a companion than Kennedy on a bender to oblivion. Salman Rushdie said once that what he sought in his novels was to fill the "god-shaped hole" left by his loss of faith. Her faith intact, Kennedy knows that God can be discerned in many things, even in the perfect form - a "long...
...stunningly beautiful dancer who caught the eye of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and became his favorite companion. But as with much of the internal workings of the world's most secretive regime, little else is known about Ko Young Hee?not even whether she and Kim were ever married. Now, South Korean authorities are scrambling to decipher rumors that Ko has died?either of breast cancer following treatment in Paris or by succumbing to injuries sustained in a car accident last year. Seoul has learned that she was seriously ill, according to a source close...
...También, but without the sex). His weapon is his wide, crooked smile. It's disarming and endearing, and as Guevara's carefree escapade turns into something far more significant, it proves an excellent tension-breaker. As his spirited friend and travel companion Granado, Rodrigo de la Serna (who's related to the real Guevara) provides the perfect foil to his shy, noble cohort. Guevara may be the heart of the film, but Granado - warm, witty and full of life - is its soul. De la Serna tackles the role of skirt-chasing, wise-cracking Granado with mischievous glee...
...river doesn't indulge mistakes, which is why I find myself gripping onto the raft as it goes over the rapid sideways and comes to rest at a curious angle on a log. As cold water pours over my shoulders into the boat, I keep saying robotically to my companions, "I'm concerned, I'm deeply concerned." A rafting trip down the length of one of Australia's last, and greatest, wild rivers seemed a natural progression from a 10-day bushwalk around Tasmania's tough south coast last year. There I'd trudged for hours through thigh-deep...
...blue glassware sold in the bazaars of Herat and tells you where to find a bed in Kandahar or nonstop Hindi movies in Mazar-e-Sharif. But the bulk of Edward Girardet and Jonathan Walter's guide relates to more life-and-death matters, and is an essential traveling companion for humanitarian-aid workers, diplomats, peacekeeping troops, journalists and others bound for Afghanistan. Although populated by plenty of hospitable folk, Afghanistan is also lawless and dangerous. One of the most heavily mined countries in the world, it is not a place in which to wander alone, especially at night...