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...After receiving nearly 7,000 entries from 26 countries, SIPF whittled down the selection to just over 800 works by 66 photographers, both established and emerging. More than half hail from Southeast Asia. "There was a lot of debate, but the huge quantity and variety was a blessing," says Terence Yeung, one of SIPF's four curators. "The very best images stood...
...long way from the band's roots in the hard-scrabble streets of Glasgow's East End. Allan, his cousin Rab (guitar), Paul Donoghue (bass) and Caroline McKay (drums) hail from Dalmarnock, a gritty neighborhood where male life expectancy is just 58 years, almost two decades below the British average. The hardest gig, Allan says, was his first, in front of his mother. "Picking up a guitar in the first place was braver than any of the songs that I wrote," says Allan, a semiprofessional footballer until the band took off. "When you're a kid, drinking, playing football...
...natural that Obama's only question cut straight to the factor beyond his own ability to shape his destiny. And as gambles go, late August weather in Denver is a pretty safe one. The blockbuster thunderstorms of June and July, when the sky goes jet black and the hail falls amid the whirlwinds, give way to gentler days and soft evenings...
...base could tank McCain's chances of winning. "The eruption would be huge," says one social conservative leader who is waiting nervously to see what McCain does. "The race is too close. There's no need to do something like that. McCain doesn't need to throw a Hail Mary here...
Despite its triumphs elsewhere, the question now is whether a story that deconstructs French social prejudices to hail the eternal value of culture can seduce readers in the U.S. and Britain. Barbery thinks her book has enjoyed such universal success because people everywhere are worried about superficiality overtaking substance in their lives. She says her cast of "improbable characters and clashing perspectives has managed to interest an equally improbable range of readers from very different backgrounds." It would be a surprise if those who read English proved any less susceptible to this book's charms...