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...seafood, and the specialty of the house is shelled crayfish, deep-fried and topped with a cloyingly sweet, caramelized peppercorn sauce. Served with rice, it ought to be accompanied by Chinese water spinach, cooked in a chili-infused shrimp paste known as belachan. For dessert, go for the sago gula melaka, a mixture of boiled sago, warm coconut milk, palm sugar and shaved ice. The cost of an average dinner for two (without alcohol) is around $50, a modest tariff for food that is invariably sedap. That's Baba Malay for "delicious," and a word that will hopefully live...
...Look, they even got Osama bin Laden to talk," quips Gula Hama Amin, one of 30 women watching the film in Nura, a village 100 miles north of Sulaimaniyah, referring to Gaznei's luxuriant beard. The others tell her to quiet down. All have been circumcised for reasons hovering somewhere between religious belief and tradition: locals say the food an uncircumcised woman cooks is unclean, or that the operation makes a girl more affectionate to her family...
...National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry spent five minutes with SHARBAT GULA. He spent the next 17 years trying to find her again. The first meeting took place when McCurry visited an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan and took the 12-year-old orphan's picture. He didn't learn her name, only that her parents had been killed by Soviet bombs. The picture appeared on the magazine's cover and, according to the editors, became the most recognized photograph in the publication's history. In subsequent visits to the region, McCurry tried in vain to locate her again. In January...
...Gula, Elliott's successor, is a graduate student in personality psychology who has worked as a senior advisor to freshmen for four years...
...Gula said yesterday the most critical duty of a senior tutor is the ability to put students in touch with all the resources at Harvard-Radcliffe with the minimal amount of "red tape...