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...many households still have a wee dram ready for a friendly foreigner with a few words of Nepali. Tongba's heartwarming kick is especially welcome during the winter, which incidentally is the best time for visiting the country: fewer tourists, no leeches, no rain, just pristine days made for glorious trekking and sightseeing...
Western Christianity has seen this treatment before, although not before about A.D. 1000. The stunning concept of divine self-sacrifice--"Jesus Christ and him crucified," as Paul put it--is the faith's heart, bound inextricably with his glorious rising three days later. But the grisly specifics of his mortification before then were of little interest to most Christians until the turn of the second millennium...
...know we’re not going to be winning games 10-0,” Banfield said. “We need to shut teams down and that’s the bottom line. Solid defense isn’t glorious like scoring a game-winning goal, but it’s what allows that game-winning goal to be scored and that’s the mentality that our entire team buys into...
...original CBS news creed: smart, crisp and hold the bullshit. Nowhere else on the network, and few places on any other, are the verities of Golden Age TV journalism upheld with such light poise, perhaps because nowhere else do the staffers so frequently consult, and replay, that glorious past. On the anniversary episode last month, a clip was shown of Edward R. Murrow, in 1951, instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX in San Francisco. (Alas, that station now carries...
...after fixing some initial sound difficulties that buried frontman Damien Kulash Jr.’s voice in the mix, OK Go delivered an hour of catchy pop songs that were undeniably and infectiously fun. Kulash channeled the campy spirits of Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury and, in a glorious cover of “Hold the Line,” the much-missed Toto. Adding to the goofiness, bassist Tim Norwind belted out chipmunk-altitude vocal harmonies while maintaining a strictly punk demeanor behind oversized sunglasses. Even the maligned crowd redeemed themselves, stomping and clapping along...