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...turn during a move to a mountainside town. Passing through a tunnel, they arrive in a strange land where a spell turns the parents into pigs. That leaves their 10-year-old daughter, Chihiro, to save them. Nothing is as it seems here?a boy turns into a flying dragon, a paper bird into a witch, a sludge-covered bathhouse customer into a river god. But Chihiro learns the value of courage and determination and is transformed from a petulant coward into a triumphant heroine...
...well-worn skate shoes tamp the Hong Kong Exhibition Center floor. It's Friday night and LMF's 11 band members overflow the stage: three electric guitars, one DJ hovering over two turntables, two standing bongos, one full drum set and four cordless microphones gripped by four dragon-eyed meanies. This is the hardcore, hard-bitten hip-hop engendered by the Wu-Tang Clan, the Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine. The set ends and the drunk is at it again. "Why stop playing?" he slurs. "You so lazy!" The crowd splits, giving him a wide berth. Three band...
...even the loosest definition is the Prime Minister a true outsider. He was born into a political family. His grandfather Matajiro was a construction-crew boss with a full-body dragon tattoo. He lived in Yokosuka, a town on Tokyo Bay. Matajiro's florid oratory and populism won him numerous terms in Parliament. He had no sons, but a protege insinuated himself into the family by marrying the old man's daughter. That man was Junya, the father of Koizumi, and he succeeded Matajiro in Parliament. When he died, he left clear instructions for his eldest son: "Certain victory, Junichiro...
...Long Bay (the name means "where the dragon descends into the sea") is vast, and once on the waves, it's possible to leave the pollution behind. For a few dollars you can hire a boat with crew from Cat Ba Island (see Hot Spot ) for a day's cruise around some of the 1,969 islands, with lunch on board and the chance to swim in one of the less greasy stretches. Or better still, escape the day-trip detritus altogether and arrange a few days on a luxury live-aboard junk complete with kayaks on which to paddle...
...poet Derek Walcott once wrote, "To change your language you must change your life." Translations can change poems (the Aeneid, for example, has an elegant architecture that's hard to rebuild in English), and translations can ruin movies (who wants to see the dubbed version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?). Shakira is struggling to prove that a person's career can be translated, from one tongue to another, from one country to the next, without changing its essence. After stops in Uruguay, Argentina and the Bahamas, she now resides in Miami, at least for the time being...