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...visible minority population and account for nearly 60% of its new immigrants every year. So the Conservatives, who won 99 seats, ran candidates like the Grewals in British Columbia this year, and the New Democrats (19 seats) aired TV spots featuring their multilingual party leader, Jack Layton, stumping in Mandarin and Cantonese. All in all, a record number of 28 South Asians ran in the election, and a total of nine Indo-Canadians and two Chinese Canadians won seats. "The reality is that multicultural communities are an integral part of Canada," says Gurmant Grewal. Of course, one Asian Canadian...
Across the street, the wine list at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel's Foliage is packed with beautiful champagnes and Bordeaux, but what caught my eye were hard-to-find regional French wines. I chose the Coulee de Serrant 1989, a legendary Loire white made from Chenin Blanc grapes from the town of Savennieres. With aromas and tastes of lychee and dried apples, it worked with everything from the herb-crusted lamb to the tender spring artichokes...
...slow day, but the lulls between the action sequences are when most police work gets done, and they're also where the real riches of Blue Blood lie. Conlon has a mook's job, but he does it with a mandarin's eye. He analyzes the subtle semiotics of "jerkology," the interrogator's art of cajoling a prisoner into confessing--"of convincing a perp to trust you more than he trusts himself, and then betraying that trust." Empty hours of patrol time fill up with banter, and Conlon transcribes it with a verve reminiscent of Mamet...
Odds are Sandvoss’s mind was on other things when he arrived at Harvard as a first-year intending to groom himself for international business and study Mandarin Chinese. But luckily for the world’s Viking pool boy fans, he burned out on business fast...
...INFOTAINMENT Can't afford Van Gogh's Sunflowers? At New York City's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper?yours, that is?using a PC in the lobby, which prints the current editions of more than 120 international dailies for $5 apiece...