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...seafront at Esplanade Arts Centre. A stylish yet modest restaurant, it was recommended by countless food-savvy Singaporeans for both the crab and the exemplary service. Seeing me ponder how best to attack the shell, a waiter discreetly slid on his plastic gloves and began deftly dissecting. The huge claws had sweet moist meat, and the sauce was a rich melding of butter, spring onion, garlic, oyster sauce and black pepper...
...last two decades have witnessed an astonishing proliferation in organized criminal activity around the world. From Mumbai to Odessa and from South Africa to Canada, cities and countries that were never associated with the "classical" mafia in the postwar period have been swamped by syndicates shifting huge quantities of illicit goods and services around the world. "We have an exponential growth in serious and organized crime," said Commander Sharon Kerr, head of the specialist crime directorate of Britain's Metropolitan Police, at a conference in Liverpool earlier this year, "manifesting itself in all kinds of ways; from Chinese DVD sellers...
...away from second-place Northeastern in the final 500 meters. Eventually claiming a 7.4-second win with a time of 6:24, the Radcliffe crew had qutie a bit to celebrate. “It was a great race in not really great conditions—there was a huge tailwind, and it’s often difficult to separate yourself from other crews in that situation,” junior captain Liz Demers said. “We knew that Northeastern was having a very good season,” Demers added. “In comparable races...
...creator of the Chuck Norris Random Fact Generator, said he’s become “jaded” as a result of his rise to Internet success. “What I did, it doesn’t serve any practical purpose. It’s a huge waste of time,” said Spector, a junior at Brown. “I’m still in school. I want to do important things with my life,” he added, blushing as the audience laughed at his implicit diss of the other Internet memes...
Even more daunting, according to scholar Huang Jing, is the institutional resistance to change. Huang, currently a visiting fellow at the University of Singapore's East Asia Institute, says there is a huge bulwark of entrenched officials (in the United Front Work Department - a bureaucracy dealing with Tibetan matters - the Public Security Bureau, Foreign Affairs, the Religious Affairs department, the Communist Party in Tibet and the Minority Affairs Department) who have spent their lifetimes railing against "spilittism" and not only can't imagine any other approach but would fear losing their jobs under any new arrangement. Thus, Huang says, essentially...