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...Kong Web site is a surreal vision of elegance and class. In place of shady clientele and garishly-lit tables are a handful of carefree twenty-somethings sipping scorpion bowls in soft candlelight. “It’s definitely sexy,” says Web designer Darrin F. Samaha, creator of the restaurant’s cyber identity. His firm, Blue Coda, counts the Harvard Square Business Association, Gino’s Salon on Holyoke Street, and the Expository Writing department among its clients. “It’s not a re-branding, but it?...
...sister and I knew only a little about liquor; Samantha greeted Darrin with it every night on Bewitched, but nobody in my house drank any, nor did the people with whom we spent Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter. We had bottles and bottles of it in two or three locations around the house, with fancy decanters and cut-crystal glasses in trays, on shelves, in showy cabinets - at the ready for someone who could actually swallow it. Everybody gave my father, the village orthopedic surgeon, a bottle of it when their bone was mended - so the stuff came in as regularly...
...them. I don't feel less a person for it. I'm saddened by the loss of some of the smaller national-minority communities in Europe, but no more or less than I'm saddened by the changes that happen to anything that lives, grows and dies. Darrin Maxwell Ath, Belgium The attitude of a dominant culture toward minorities within its borders is a measure of a country's degree of civilization. The record of Europeans in the 20th century has not been great, but there are indications that things are improving. In June the Irish language was adopted...
...same could be said of Nora Ephron's movie. It has a good premise: down-on-his-luck movie actor Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) agrees to do a remake of the old TV show (1964-72) but casts an unknown to play Samantha so he, playing her husband Darrin, can dominate the program. The role goes to Isabel Bigelow (Kidman), who really is a witch, although she's trying to break the habit. But you can't make a laff riot out of what is essentially a straight man's role, and Jack bombs. Even the family dog scores higher...
...will be judged by how it succeeds "with important things." He defines them as "security, jobs ... and getting the Americans out of our country." If nothing else, those are goals for the new government that all Iraqis can agree on. --With reporting by Christopher Allbritton/ Baghdad, Darrin Mortenson/ Najaf and Sally B. Donnelly, Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/ Washington...