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...college student showing his contemporaries how to do things like make smoothies out of dining-hall fruit--helped the show gain a cult following. Students would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for a "hookup" recipe. Tapes of the show were passed around, spreading his fame beyond the New Haven campus and eventually to the Food Network...
Consider it a sign of the times that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao chose to begin his trip to India last Saturday with a visit to the high-tech haven of Bangalore before traveling to New Delhi to talk politics. High-tech and business, naturally enough, are at the top of the agenda for this encounter between leaders of the world's emerging economic superpowers. Indians hope their Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can agree with Wen on ways to boost trade between the two countries and can reduce competition with China over access to the energy resources both nations need...
...canonizing Christians killed during the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the 20th century. The Pope later mended fences by apologizing for the Church's mistakes in China over the past four centuries, and last week, Beijing's Foreign Ministry expressed "sadness" at his passing. But the two sides haven't gone back to the negotiating table. "The Chinese side," says Joseph Zen, Archbishop of Hong Kong, "has not shown much interest in dialogue...
...fairy-tale marriage to Hollywood royal Grace Kelly, Rainier modernized a community once called a "sunny place for shady people," building affordable hotels to draw middle-class visitors to its famed Monte Carlo casino, and popularizing the mini-state, which has no income tax, as a tax haven for foreign businesses. After Kelly's death in a car crash in 1982, he withdrew, facing declining health and regular tabloid accounts of the indiscretions of his rebellious daughters, Caroline and Stephanie. He is succeeded by his son, Prince Albert...
That is what it's like to experience an opera the DVD way--in this case, on a three-disc set released by BBC/Opus Arte. And we haven't even mentioned the surround sound, the subtitles in your choice of four languages, the plot synopses--all only a click or two away on your remote. No wonder conductor James Levine says that of all recording technologies, "this medium is, up to now, the best. DVD gives a really amazing, thrilling and altogether remarkable result...