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...Tucked into this genteel landscape is Mimolette, tel: (65) 6467 7748. This newly opened restaurant is housed in a former boot camp for professional jockeys and its menu follows, according to founder Jonathan Chan, "the new American mantra." That's gastro-speak for an emphasis on fresh and organically grown ingredients, which is, in turn, often a euphemism for dull - though not in Mimolette's case. Excellent and comforting dinners - think pan-roasted quail, or Yorkshire pork rack - are served nightly except Mondays. But Mimolette really comes into its own at Sunday brunch, when its uncluttered dining room is filled...
...Farrow, a western celebrity who has publicized the Darfur crisis, is quoted widely by the international media denouncing China. Why must this genteel lady cause harm to do good? At a recent preaching stop in Hong Kong, Farrow again bashed the Chinese, but evaded questions on the U.S. role in humanitarian crises in the Middle East. It's hypocritical double standards like these that spark this "virulent" Chinese nationalism. Man-piu Lee, Hong Kong...
...after a female gave birth to a stillborn baby. "The other adults let her keep the dead baby for a day," she says. "Then they ate it." These reports have given rise to a prickly cultural debate, with the unknowing bonobos being recruited into America's political wars. bonobos' genteel qualities may be overstated, said a headline in the Wall Street Journal after Parker's piece appeared. De Waal shot back in eSkeptic magazine, accusing Parker of being a "revisionist." Says Coxe: "The right wing doesn't like bonobos, but open-minded liberals love them...
...super Tuesday, Bush's former brain, Karl Rove, debuted on Fox News Channel as a political analyst. Genteel, wry and armed with terabytes of political minutiae, he won critical raves. ("One of the best things in television news right now," said the New York Times, the equivalent of a Westminster Dog Show hopeful getting endorsed by Cat Fancy.) But there was something poignantly valedictory about the old warrior playing referee: the lion, if not in winter, then in a petting...
...target of his wrath was, on this occasion and for many years to come, Gore Vidal, an equally dazzling writer and social critic. Watching their strangely genteel 1968 scuffle on YouTube, we are reminded of the sorry spectacle that intellectual life has become today, polluted by such loutish mediocrities as Christopher Hitchens and Ann Coulter. Unlike the latter, Buckley had a unique talent for making even bigotry seem courteous...