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...Fine words, yet the linkage between Milosevic's extradition and financial aid to Serbia troubled some. "Of course, the money is important," said Latinka Perovic, a Belgrade historian. "But we have a moral duty to do away with the culture of killing, and I have heard precious little about that in the last few weeks...
Holl, who teaches and practices in New York City, is famous too for a fine-fibered sense of materials. One of his organizing principles he describes as "the stone and the feather," that being his notion of how weight and weightlessness are best understood in the presence of each other. You understand them better yourself at the Chapel of St. Ignatius, where thin sheets of zinc roofing meet rough concrete walls along knife-edged junctures. The heft of the concrete accentuates the fine metal, which reciprocates by pointing up the raw mass of the heavier material...
...America's best film director, eh? Best--well, fine--but American? Lee, who was born and raised in Taiwan; who brings a very Mandarin delicacy to his subjects; who has shot most of his features in distant climes (Taipei for Pushing Hands and Eat Drink Man Woman, rural England for Sense and Sensibility, mainland China for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon); who has never made a movie in Hollywood; and whose name, correctly put, is Lee Ang...That...
...shrooms rather than get wired and tuned in with shabu. With vendors selling the dried fungi in head shops, street-corner stands and even over the Internet, scoring mushrooms has become as easy as buying a pack of incense or some herbal tea. Vendors, however, have to walk a fine line. In the case of mushrooms, it is illegal to extract the active ingredients?in most cases, psilocybin?but it isn't illegal to possess the fungus itself. This means vendors can sell the mushrooms, but they can't tell you what to do with them or advertise them...
...looked so pitiful that the secretaries stuck me in a private waiting room. On Day 7, she insisted on taking me—in the tiny Honda that truly is one with the road—to get my passport picture retaken. (“You look fine. Smile.”) Weeks later, a customs official needed to see another form of identification before letting me leave the country...