Word: gins
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...though, Hanoi?always more dour than gaudy Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in the south?just might be starting to loosen up. "Who cares about the government?" shouts a refrigerator salesman swilling iced gin at the bar and listening to the Filipino country-and-western band. "What matters is what the people like." And the people can't get enough of cowboys. Happy hour at the Seventeen Saloon, from 5 to 8 p.m., is a convivial crush of Vietnamese cutting loose. One tip: if you're planning to pay a visit, make sure to get there early, as the action...
Meanwhile, in the town of Hutto, north of Austin, the construction on State Highway 130 is a sign of things to come. Farmers no longer gather at the cotton gin, but the town's first national chain, Home Depot, has moved in. Mayor Mike Ackerman drives by the construction site every day on his way to work and is sanguine about the changing face of his town. "Anything we can do to get traffic moving north and south, we need to do," he says. The question is whether the rest of Texas agrees with him. --With reporting by Hilary Hylton/Austin
...with calvados, honey-roasted catfish, and lamb that quite literally melts in your mouth are served with organic vegetables grown in the hotel garden and wild herbs picked in local lava fields. On weekends, Reyjkavik's hip set descend to drink in the views and taste the excellent minty gin-and-tonic sorbets - a palate-cleansing aperitif, and a nod to the British who occupied Iceland in 1940. That's not to say you should stay indoors. Local company Snjófell (tel: [354] 435 6783) offers adrenaline-fueled snowmobile trips to Snaefells' 1,463-m summit - but no through...
...disc is eclectic, thick and often lavish—at times somewhere between Rufus Wainwright and Belle and Sebastian (“The Fear is On” and the charming opener “Doot Doot Ploot”), and at others, like Nick Drake on too much gin-spiked coffee (“B-Boy” and “That’s When the Ceremony Starts”). This alone may be too much for some, but unquestionably deserves a careful listen. Overall, the disc’s production has the fantastic ability to sound...
...president who loves the game and knew this was his last campaign, Bush sounded on Tuesday morning like a man at peace. "This election is in the hands of the people," he said after he voted, "and I feel very comfortable with that." He was host of a gin-rummy tournament on Air Force One as he headed from Crawford back to the White House to wait out the results. It was on the plane that strategist Karl Rove started calling around to get the results of early exit polls. But the line kept breaking down. The only information that...