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...cake for dessert (we didn't), just a few blocks away at 15 Youngkang Street is Bing Guan (The Ice House), a small stand that has become a Taipei institution serving shaved ice covered in fruit and cream. Because the line curls around the corner, Xiao Gugu has us hover over a table while she queues up to get the special of the day: flaming red strawberries sliced over thick cream on a bed of finely ground ice. A simple delight no one should miss...
...Sharon is not responding to opinion polls; he's maneuvering to outflank his rivals. Benjamin Netanyahu continues to hover menacingly, ready to resume the mantle of Likud party leadership from Sharon as soon as the party holds a primary. So simply maintaining the present impasse almost certainly seals Sharon's fate at the hands of his own party faithful. Also, his restless foreign minister Shimon Peres - the Oslo architect increasingly desperate to restore political dialogue with the Palestinians - has been running his own talks with Ahmed Qurei in pursuit of a new peace formula...
...Enough surviving al-Qaeda operatives - including archterrorist Osama bin Laden himself - remain at large for us to know that there is something being planned, somewhere. And even if it is not an al-Qaeda strike, the potential for violence is high in places like Kashmir, where India and Pakistan hover on the brink of war, and the Philippines, where the U.S. is assisting President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her effort to eliminate the threat from the Abu Sayaaf terrorist organization...
...BOXER SHORTS: Kirkus is rhapsodic about "The Shadow Boxer," a debut novel by Steven Heighton (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin; February 25), giving it a starred review. "The ghosts of Jack London, Thomas Wolfe, and Jack Kerouac all hover approvingly over a terrific first novel by Heighton, an Ontario poet and story writer...One of the finest coming of age tales in recent years, and a splendid novelistic debut by a writer who seems to be just now entering a most impressive maturity." Author tour...
...Jerseyans $1 million. But no matter how much he does, he can't change the fact that they're still stuck in Jersey EUAN BLAIR PM's son gets homework help from Defense Ministry. If our dad was PM, we'd get way better perks?like "borrowing" MI6's hover Porsche MARK SHUTTLEWORTH South African mogul set to be second space tourist. He'll boldly go where no man with a net worth of less than $1 billion has gone before Losers DEAN KAMEN Inventor's top-secret scooter "Ginger" elicits yawns in its debut. He plans...