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...logo, staff uniforms and coffee cups, as well as every store, Banrie is the expression of an aesthetic and political vision. The national anthem plays regularly at stores, and Saichol buys coffee at premium prices to support domestic growers. Of course, you don't have to be a fervent Thai patriot to enjoy a cup of coffee at Banrie. At the end of the day, it's simply a pleasant place to relax and refuel. Try the aforementioned, temple-like branch on Sukhumvit Road. It's the chain's largest and is open 24 hours a day. The fight against...
...Orleans for all the nation to see, Mayor Ray Nagin swept into office with high hopes of bridging those gaps. So how is it that now, in the wake of Katrina's devastation and dislocation, the Big Easy seems more polarized than ever about Nagin himself? To his fervent supporters, New Orleans' up-by-his-bootstraps millionaire turned city-hall reformer is just the right man for the job of rebuilding New Orleans, "the only guy who can assure accountability and transparency," says Tim Williamson, head of the Idea Village, a leading New Orleans business-development group. Earlier this month...
...which the next generation just wants to be normal kids. The people who are getting that are the Christian right," he says. Indeed, several of those I met at the Exodus event had come not because they thought it would make them straight or even because they are particularly fervent Christians. Instead, they were there because they find something empty about gay culture--a feeling that Exodus exploits with frequent declamations about gays' supposed promiscuity and intemperance. "I'm just not attracted to the gay lifestyle, toward gay people--I've never felt a kinship with them," says Manuel Lopez...
...cover story reported on Pope Benedict XVI's first 100 days and what they signal about the future of his papacy and his efforts to rejuvenate the church. Young Catholics let us know that although they missed John Paul II and the fervent devotion he inspired, they want to give Benedict a chance I read with interest your articles on Benedict XVI's papacy and the Roman Catholic youth movement [Aug. 15]. The report on attempts by conservative Catholic lay groups to connect with young Europeans noted that it is not clear how many people "revered John Paul's austere...
...behavior during awards season was reminiscent of the video-set collision between church architecture and large breasts. It seemed a little forced. "He's trying to change this genre, and in order to do that he's got to get people to listen to his music," says a fervent McDaniels. "They've gotten so used to hardness, to stupidity, that if he has to engage in a little of that to be relevant...