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...Nawab Ka Choraya neighborhood, jammed with gem shops and throngs of small-time brokers showing their packets in the street. "Did you notice I took off my jewelry?" she says, smiling. "They copy." How to describe the chaos?with monkeys swinging in and out of dilapidated, baroque fa??ades, sugarcane presses spewing smoke, and dozens of men (there are very few women in sight) pursuing De Taillac. "Hallooo, halloo. You buy emeralds. You want Indian rubies?" they cry, tugging at her clothes, and when she stops to look over a handful of lemon quartz, she causes a traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passage to India | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...next time you see the words “Riesman Center” written on the Hillel fa??ade, don’t let anyone tell you that it’s named after noted sociologist David Riesman. It has everything to do with your blushing future hubby...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To My Future Wife | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...Internet dates. Looking out from behind Ned's stubble, she was surprised at how much sexual power women have over men, even when women may feel disempowered in other ways, and how icily they wield it. She was also surprised how tough it was to keep up the fa??ade of bluff, jocular arrogance that both sexes demand from men at all times. "Every man's armor is borrowed and 10 sizes too big," she writes in Self-Made Man, "and beneath it, he's naked and insecure and hoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making a Man of Her | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

Frankly, we wouldn't want that guy lurking around our house either. YOKO ONO is raising a protest about Chapter 27, a movie starring JARED LETO as John Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman. The Beatle's widow checked to see if she could prevent filming of the fa??ade of the Dakota in New York City, the spot where Lennon was shot and where she still lives, but filmmakers obtained the necessary city permits and started work there last week. "She thinks the whole concept is terrible and offensive," says an Ono spokesman. "The filmmakers are fulfilling an assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 30, 2006 | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...aware that his trumpeted “political capital” is losing value faster than a marc in the Weimar Republic, and he is desperate to repaint himself as a more realistic leader. And that is precisely the President’s problem. Rather than maintain his myopic fa??ade of absolute optimism, he should have given this speech months ago, if not over a year ago. That he did not deliver it until now, as he teeters on the brink of a political abyss, demonstrates how truly feeble his leadership has been. The President did not deliver...

Author: By Andrew M. Trombly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Too Little, Too Late | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

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