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...film explores five intertwining family relationships which are all bought to a climatic point of self-awareness by the impending nuptials. The plot threatens to descend into a soap opera from the very beginning. Struggling to end a torrid affair with her former boss, the young professional Aditi (radiantly performed by Vasundhara Das) has just days to reconsile with her arranged marriage to Hemant (Parvin Dabas), a handsome if slightly dull engineer who remains clueless to Aditi’s extramarital shenanigans...
...what good is a spiritual home that doesn't give you something to help in your worldly toils and travails? Each February, thousands of nakleng from all parts of the kingdom descend on Wat Bang Phra for exactly that: a little bit of magic to make them even tougher. Many Thais believe monks can pass on a bit of their power through amulets, prayer beads or, in the case of Wat Bang Phra, tattoos. Get a magical tattoo and you may be able to stop a robber's bullet with your teeth?or so goes an apocryphal tale...
Fifteen Harvard undergraduates will descend upon Capitol Hill today to lobby for more government funding of space development and AIDS programs...
...Harvard’s vision for the area. If Harvard located research facilities in Allston, it would likely attract further development, Doherty says. It’s the magnet effect, he says—once a critical mass has been built up, the herd of biotech firms will descend...
...former President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It will be up to the three judges, who also constitute the jury--Britain's brisk, outspoken May, Jamaica's scholarly Patrick Robinson and South Korea's quiet O-Gon Kwon--to make sure the whole thing doesn't descend into farce...