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...steps leading to the summit zig, zag, and turn in spirals, passing meditation cells, shrines and small shops selling everything from tourist trinkets to fragrant thanakha logs?from which Burmese women grind their traditional face powder. Monkeys cavort along the path?cute from a distance but downright terrifying when they bare their teeth and hiss. Be warned: while eating pork or cursing may offend the nats, a bag of cookies in your back pocket is a sure invitation to an attack by monkeys...
...match their music. Wreathed in smoke and dressed in tastefully tattered black, the threesome conjure up a hurricane of sound so dense and vital you would swear they had another guitarist stashed away in the back, hidden behind the smoke machine. Guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Turner stoically grind out rock the likes of which has been neither seen nor heard for years...
AIRING IT OUT If you're starting to overheat from the back-and-forth grind of business travel, the Kensington FlyFan ($25) may be just what the flight attendant ordered. It's powered by a laptop's USB port and cuts the air with 1 1/2-in.-wide blades made of fabric (so you can't cut yourself). You won't get there any faster, but at least you will look cool...
It’s been four years since I crossed the stage in stiletto heels to be crowned Mr. Tiger Beauty Queen 1998. I’m still telling dirty jokes and swinging my hips. I grind at gay dance clubs and I am far too affectionate with my gay friends in public. Were my stereotypically homosexual traits a defense mechanism, I suspect they would have peeled off by now in Harvard’s gay-friendly atmosphere. But questions about my behavior and its origin seem irrelevant these past four months. When my mother had her will finalized...
...story of the sinful origins of their “lavish lifestyle” (is that what we consider drug addiction to be?). Now your columnists can’t seem to get enough of the humiliation in store for them and have jumped on this opportunity to grind axes against the people who seek attention, dress expensively and don’t acknowledge them in the halls. Grand larceny is indeed a crime, but their self-righteousness and sheer spite is unwarranted and tiresome. Given that the two students in question are facing decade-long sentences if convicted, it?...