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...princess!" shouts hisassistant, who has taken a few days off work at the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy to help Wangyal out. He's referring to a royal from Katoch, a nearby hillstation: "She'll be a judge." Wangyal beams and yelps, "Woo-hooo!" punching his fist in the air. "Four judges and four contestants." The pageant may not be adisaster after...
Despite President Bush’s impure motives, his war has so far done much good for the liberated Afghans. And the genocidal regime in Baghdad will soon be crushed by what can only be called the benevolent fist of the American Empire. But if the Sept. 11 attacks were the cause for these wars, they should not be made the justification. I hope that the orations delivered over the dead today self-consciously avoid linking...
...dope smoke?surprising, considering that cannabis grows wild all over Yunnan. But the cops just downwind from the lone toker don't seem to notice. They, and the helmeted security guards in front of the stage, nod to the beat?some even take furtive photos and risk the occasional fist-pump...
...that the movie industry remains at its core a boys' club. Yet for the first time in history, women are now running half of the six major movie studios. Sherry Lansing is celebrating her 10th anniversary as chairman of Paramount Pictures, ruling the studio with an iron fiscal fist. And her two younger colleagues--Amy Pascal at Columbia and Stacey Snider at Universal--are known to be every bit as brazen as their male counterparts when it comes to gambling with $200 million production and marketing budgets. All three women are working mothers with decidedly feminine personalities and gentle management...
Parsley, or perejil, is considered so easy to come by and so indispensable in Spanish kitchens that it is given away. When you buy your fruit and vegetables at the local market a puñado or fist of parsley is usually flourished wordlessly into the shopping bag without your asking. When I first started living here and offered to pay for it, a stallholder admonished, "We don't make a fuss over perejil." Last week, however, the Spanish got both fussy and fisty over a place that got its name from the plant, a tiny island called Perejil...