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...campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark-fin-sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China. The Banquet Bug, which won enthusiastic reviews in the U.S. this summer, is now being published in Britain with greater fanfare and a more appetizing title, The Uninvited. It is the first book written in English by Yan, a Shanghai-born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungry For More | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Really Big Catch Iceland resumes whaling Hey, Ahab! Breaking a 20-year global moratorium on commercial whaling, Icelandic authorities plan to begin issuing licenses to hunt 40 minke and endangered fin whales through next August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next: Oct. 30, 2006 | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

Cafč Tacvba (pronounced tacuba) has spent 17 years taking elements of contemporary music--from north-of-the-border punk to the indigenous sounds of Veracruz--and synthesizing them into a fluid, singular brand of rock en espańol. The song El Fin de la Infancia puts brassy Mexican banda music to a ska beat. Eres is a pop ballad served straight. And Chilanga Banda is a nod to funk. It makes for manic concerts. This two-disc set captures Tacvba's epic 15th-anniversary blowout in Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Sizzling CDs from South of the Border | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...will be on sale for $20-$200. Take the Red Line to Kendall Square. 5. Thursday, September 28 - Saturday, September 30. $25 wristband (available online at www.ticketbean.com) gets you all shows, or you can go à la carte. To some, it is an animated clownfish with a deformed fin. But in Boston, Nemo is also an independent music smorgasbord, featuring 300 artists and bands over three days of hipsters and hipness. Show your Harvard spirit by checking out our own Blanks, playing at the Paradise Lounge on Friday. Reigning “fun czar” John T. Drake...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Out! | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

Translation? Too much material that appears in lecture or section for about three milliseconds surfaces out of nowhere like Jaws’ dorsal fin to bite you in the ass on the midterm and final, while stuff that takes up multiple lectures is never heard from again. This is not “Food and Culture,” folks. Science B skipped the lecture on “Um, Cores are Supposed to Be EASY, I’m Trying to Write a THESIS Here!”, so do yourself a favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science B | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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