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...perched alertly on Portman’s lap, Charlie hardly seems lonely. He aims his short snout at a passing spaniel and twitches his nose in the easy spring breeze. Like his owner, he appears confident in the shade of Harvard’s halls...
Charlie squirms in Portman’s lap as she reflects on her graduation and the plain of years beyond. Her largely unmapped future, she says, remains open to any changes in interests and priorities that time may bring...
...generalize a bit?and what are critics in Cannes for, other than to see dozens of movies and lap up the free vittles??the artier directors from Europe and the Americas are so sick of current affairs that they want to blow everything up. The Asians on the other hand, who have lived with catastrophe for so long it's like a noisy neighbor, see each day as a little test that must be passed to get to tomorrow. (It's the difference between two views of North Korea: the Bush Administration's and South Korea...
Novice monks spread freshly washed clothes out onto the cobblestone courtyard. Arthritic, bead-clutching Buddhist nuns shuffle around the Rumtek Dharma Chakra Centre, accumulating merit with every leisurely lap. If it weren't for the guards on the rooftop, toting antique Enfield rifles, the 273-year-old Rumtek Monastery would be a vision of calm...
...challenge. Faced with a dramatic decline in reservations, airlines such as Cathay Pacific?which last week asked 14,000 of its employees to take four weeks of special leave starting in June?have been forced to slash their schedules by almost 50%. Passenger flow at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport?formerly heralded as Asia's busiest travel hub?is down 80% since the SARS outbreak, from 100,000 to 20,000 per day. Seats on remaining flights are plentiful, but the SARS epidemic makes mundane trips so irritating that even hardened road warriors are staying home. B.S. (Before...