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...live up to their Southern bar standards? “Not bars, barbecue joints,” a chorus of voices chime simultaneously. There is a difference, apparently. Charleston, S.C. native Burden H. Walker ’06 explains, “You’re driving on the highway and there’s nothing, there’s nothing, there’s nothing…and then there’s this shack with Christmas lights—Bubba’s Barbecue Joint!” Brother Jimmy’s is the Bubba?...
Sources: MSNBC; Ipsos for Galeries Lafayette; Insurance Institute for Highway Safety; J.D. Power & Associates
...Asian art. In the fall of my freshman year, however, my mother developed a more dangerous obsession: nightly trips to petfinder.com to seek out dogs in need of rescue. Pippi, as we named our Kansas City rescue, was found abandoned and meandering in the median strip of a highway in Missouri, and soon became my mother’s newest surrogate child...
This marriage of the sacred and the mundane has made Arcadia the rare TV show about spirituality to win over both audiences and critics. Whereas its predecessors have been either panned but popular marshmallow halos (Highway to Heaven) or controversial, swiftly canceled critical darlings (Nothing Sacred), Arcadia has avoided, Goldilocks-style, going too soft or too hard. Joan (Amber Tamblyn) is an average, nonreligious teen with whom the Lord decides to strike up a friendship, manifesting himself (and herself) in persons from a TV anchorman to a cafeteria lunch lady. Joan has a heart-wrenching family situation--a brother...
...surge in spending by international aid agencies is also stimulating the economy, even reaching up to the ravaged Tamil north, where a highway to Jaffna is being rebuilt by the Asian Development Bank. Although thousands of Tamils who had to leave their homes during the civil war still languish in refugee camps, conditions in the north are slowly improving. In Killinochchi, an LTTE-controlled town that saw some of the fiercest fighting, a landscape of burned-out, bullet-scarred buildings is intermittently relieved by a brand-new office or restaurant. The LTTE has even opened its own caf? in town...