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...comedy with a dash of period drama in director Clare Peploe’s Triumph of Love, a film adaptation of an 18th-century story by French playwright Pierre Marivaux. As a princess struggling to win the heart of a prince (Jay Rodan) while restoring the rule of her kingdom to its rightful heir, Mira dons a cunning and passionate persona that manages to crack the stoic visages of the prince’s rationalist guardian (Ben Kingsley) and his withdrawn sister (Fiona Shaw). “I offer them the idea of love,” explains Mira...
Once the capital of Lan Xang, the Kingdom of a Million Elephants, this town of about 16,000 inhabitants perches on a peninsula where the Nam Khan and Mekong rivers meet about 200 km north of Vientiane. It's a place of unsurpassed charm, which seems all the more fragile when you consider it's a mere 100 km or so from the infamous Other Theater where between 1964 and 1973 the U.S. was busy dropping a planeload of bombs every eight minutes in the so-called Secret...
...roughly zero for teens. That means that, within reasonable limits, teens will smoke about the same number of cigarettes no matter the price. Government statistics even show an increase in underage smoking in seven of eight states that have recently raised their cigarette taxes. In the United Kingdom, where cigarettes are twice as expensive as they are here, the smoking rate for children is the same as in the United States...
Your item "Gas Not Included," on Jerry Seinfeld's 20 Porsches and their new custom-designed garage, made me wonder [PEOPLE, March 18]: What if Seinfeld were a 19th century prince in a tiny kingdom where most people lived in mean little hovels and were being pushed off the land by rich landowners who wanted more stables for their horses? Would the peasants eventually revolt and take over the stables? What a pity there's no precedent for revolutions aimed at media stars, America's version of the ruthless, greedy ruling classes. PATTI LOWERY Baltimore...
...Campus ministry may be described as ‘the goose that laid the golden egg,’” says Douglas Jacoby, a BCC Kingdom Teacher, in the church’s 2000 evangelism handbook Shining Like Stars. College students are seen as prime candidates for future leadership. Monique A. Cloutier, a former BCC member who converted while a student at Northeastern, told The Crimson in 1995, “We were told to go after ‘sharp’ people, people who made a difference. They really want those type of people, the people...