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...invited to share a meal with the dozen other passengers, all males. Glasses brimming with beer and vodka were passed around and repeatedly refilled. Tureens of steaming fish arrived and disappeared into empty stomachs. They kept raising random toasts to nothing—over twenty in all. Only halfway through the meal did I glance around and notice the only woman on board. I realized she had cooked our food, served it, and was now holding the boat steady on course until the men finished their meal and deigned to choose a direction. She caught my eye and smiled softly...
...earlier, a UNIFIL convoy of armored personnel carriers had inched their way up a heavily cratered coastal road in an attempt to reach Tyre to provide relief supplies to the stranded families of the force's civilian staff. The troops, however, were forced to abandon their APCs halfway into their journey because of Israeli shelling of the road and instead spent the night in bomb shelters...
...film's directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, realize Michael Le Sieur's script in a distinctly unmerry way. About halfway through it begins to dawn on you that this is essentially another film in the newish tradition of the unfunny comedy (The Break-Up is another recent example). Or perhaps we should say that it is comedy only because that's the default setting for this kind of movie in the marketing department's computers. Hey, we got a funny guy and a presumptively funny situation, so it must be a laff riot. Or, at least, something we can sell...
...anyone who knows me, this is an anomaly in the extreme. I have an innate incapability to have a clean desk; one memorable winter, I lost my ID twice under the stacks of papers and books that inevitably cover it by mid-semester. Yet it’s almost halfway through the summer semester here at Beijing Language and Culture University, and my tabletop remains freakishly clean. Ostensibly, my monkish existence has a single purpose: learn Mandarin. To this end, we may only speak in Chinese, read Chinese, write Chinese for the entirety of the program; the punishment for being...
...After two Oprah episodes featuring dramatic "bra interventions" and even a Dateline investigation into the problem, American women are embracing bra fittings Haven't you read the style section stories? Oprah made the procedure sound like something halfway between winning the lottery and discovering your fairy godmother: "Every woman watching, this is going to change your life?Everyone's talking about it. And I'm revealing a beauty secret that literally performs miracles. It can reverse aging. It can make you look 10, even 20 pounds lighter." The literal miracles seem slight compared to this. Says Oprah, according...