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After the drinking's done, head for comfort food at Xin Jiu Long, tel: (86-10) 6255 7348, one of Beijing's best restaurants. For the past decade this University District eatery has packed them in with a menu of several regional cuisines, though the house specialty is Sichuan. Tucked in an intimate neighborhood behind the Yansha Hotel and across from People's University, the restaurant is divided into three public dining rooms on the ground floor and private ones upstairs. Sit at a table by the windows in the main room for a view of one of the capital...
...rich and varied culture of Brazil has met the venerable fighting style of Japan--and the result is a burgeoning martial-arts craze in the U.S. Academies that teach Brazilian jiujitsu, rare a few years ago, now number more than 250 nationwide. Renzo and Royler Gracie's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Theory and Technique is Amazon's No. 1 martial-arts book. And as with any true trend, celebrities are getting in on the act: Nicolas Cage and Ed O'Neill (Married ... With Children's Al Bundy) are among its newest converts...
...That's me," I said, taking his sign and double checking the characters to make sure. Almost immediately, I was swarmed by young people. Two female cousins, hair swept back in identical, long pony tails, each grabbed me by the arm and tugged in opposite directions. "Oooh Jiu-Ru, welcome home. We're so happy to see you. we've been waiting for you for more than an hour...
...wondering when you'd finally go. Jiu-Ru, you haven't gone to the bathroom all day," Little Auntie remarked as I emerged from their newly constructed, modern outhouse. She chuckled. "You know, when your father visited us ten years ago, and we still had to use the public toilets, he would wait all day before going. He made your uncle take him. He was so afraid of the smell...
...Haibin Jiu '94, associate photography chair of The Crimson, is writing a senior thesis on Treasury bond futures as well as looking for a job that "will benefit society...