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...next show was clearly anticipated by the Chinese tourists. While the wives dutifully hung back, the men crowded along a low wooden fence. Beyond it was an artificial grove of ferns and waterfalls. Five women wearing wet sarongs appeared and began to pour water slowly over themselves. Occasionally a woman would let a sarong slip to show a glistening brown breast. The Chinese men craned forward; two guards blew whistles and shooed them back. The women splashed about in desultory fashion for another five minutes and then, upon some hidden cue, picked up their buckets and tossed water over...
...muffler franchisees and watching the Discovery Channel. A former director of AOL, Powell gave assurances that America's technology-challenged diplomacy would get an upgrade. "I live on the Internet," he said, promising to enlist the aid of some of "my buddies" from the outside world: Steve Case, Andy Grove and Michael Dell. Where Madeleine Albright was known to send big advance teams and require special foods and water when she traveled the world, Powell said, "I'm an easy visitor. I've got no food requirements, I like Holiday Inns." And where the organizational culture frowns on people...
...hundreds of kilometers to find the ideal backdrop for each scene. Before the shoot in Heng-dian, the 300-strong crew crisscrossed mainland China from Dunhuang in the northwest of Gansu province to Jiuzhaigou in northern Sichuan. Last year, the company dropped everything to head for an ancient oak grove in Inner Mongolia to shoot a fight scene between Cheung and Zhang Ziyi at the height of the fall foliage. "I had a guy out there specifically to keep an eye on the leaves," says Zhang. "He made videotapes of their progress as they turned from green to yellow...
Bill Clinton has always had a problem with time. There he was in April, standing in a grove of 3,000-year-old giant sequoias in central California, about to declare them a national monument as part of his green legacy. But the Secret Service told him he had only 10 minutes for a "hike in the woods." Clinton bounded off through the sequoias, fascinated by the 300-ft. skyscrapers that spring from a seed smaller than a rice grain. He returned, behind schedule, to make his designation speech before zipping off by helicopter to a fund raiser in southern...
...month since the election, I have reread "War and Peace," interminable and still the greatest novel. No one ever described the fog of battle better than Tolstoy. I have lately been comforting myself with the Book of Proverbs, which I carry around in a pocket edition from Grove Press and dip into whenever I have had too much of "Hardball" or "The O'Reilly Factor...