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...Kristine M. Boehm ’08 shopped for a wedding dress at Filene’s Basement in downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve. The two were preparing for Boehms’ upcoming wedding in Guatemala, an affair in which the 12 bridesmaids will hail from all over the world—Alabama, Cuba and Puerto Rico, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, and Peru. Boehm, 24, will wed Christian Móller, 32, on Sept. 6, two years after they met through mutual friends. Soon after meeting, they discovered that their...
...ubiquitous social networking site that brought them together has led to a wedding of international proportions. Kristine M. Boehm ’08 and Christian Móller As Kristine M. Boehm ’08 shopped for a wedding dress at Filene’s Basement in downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve...
...broad appetit food festival in downtown Richmond, Va., visitors can stuff themselves with pizza, Thai noodles, fried chicken and--this being Virginia--smoky barbecue. But some of the biggest crowds are gathered around David George Gordon, a cheerful 58-year-old writer from Seattle. Gordon isn't cooking anything that complex--just some pasta, prepared on a hot plate--but scattered among his orzo like tiny six-legged meatballs is a show-stopping ingredient: crickets. The author of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Gordon considers Orthopteran Orzo his signature dish. He scoops the pasta into paper cups and begins handing...
...says. "Maybe I will come back here," he adds desolately. "Or maybe Morgan Tsvangirai will win the election, and maybe the economic situation will improve." About a dozen other Zimbabweans at the bus depot shared similar stories with TIME, while others seeking shelter in the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg - where around 3,000 mainly Zimbabweans are have found a makeshift refuge - said that they would return home if they could afford...
Vaclav Havel insists that his first play in 20 years, which opened to enthusiastic reviews at a small experimental theater in downtown Prague on May 22, is not autobiographical. It's true that the play, entitled Leaving, and has echoes of Shakespeare's King Lear, tells the story of a top official leaving office -as former President Havel did in 2003. Some of its characters seem easily recognizable to those familiar with Czech politics. But Havel is not being disingenuous: The lead character, an aging politician named Vilem Rieger, is far too humorless to represent the former dissident who once...