Word: mantras
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...hardly breathe / You make me wanna scream / You’re so fabulous / You’re so good to me baby.” All appearances aside, it’s Avril Lavigne singing with complete disregard for her old “Boys suck!” mantra. The rest of the album is mainly composed of similarly predictable insta-songs. The phrase (if you can call it that) “Hey, you!” seems to have been cut and pasted into as many of the album’s tracks as possible. The title...
...wraps). Speaking of decadence, chef André Chiang at the Tec-Tec Restaurant blends his Taiwanese heritage with French training (Gagnaire and Robuchon are both on his CV) to produce a superb Franco-Asian cuisine, with touches of tandoor and creole. It doesn't follow the "fresh and local" mantra of resort cooking. But it, like the Seychelles, is wonderful fusion. Villas start at $1,800 a night; see maia.com.sc...
...rally in Colombo. "Clearly when groups fight, the first attempt should be to solve it through talks," says the Venerable Athuraliye Rathana, who heads the Buddhist group. "But we cannot tolerate [the Tigers'] terrorist activities. We have to destroy [them], and then we can talk." It's the mantra of a nation: kill or be killed. In the camp outside Batticaloa, as Jeevatharsini finishes her schoolwork, her father ponders what he will do next: "Because of the losses I have [suffered], the depression and frustration," says Sinnathambi, "sometimes I get the feeling I should also resort to violence...
...that easy for Dove to overturn the mind-set against aging gracefully. Boomers might say they want to look their age, but how they spend their money is another matter. How else to account for the more than 4 million Americans who got Botox injections last year? The antiaging mantra has spread beyond face creams. Revlon makes a line of "age-defying makeup," and Crest makes "Rejuvenating Effects" toothpaste. Even winemaker Robert Mondavi has jumped into the beauty pool with a luxury antiaging skin-care line, Davi ($175 for a 2-oz. jar), packed with grape-seed extract, an antioxidant...
...visited Woolmer in the hours before he died. They are also examining Woolmer's laptop, which was left in the room by the killer or killers. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is the present-a gift to make the most of," went Woolmer's personal mantra. For one of cricket's most interesting characters there will be no more tomorrow. But for now, the mystery remains...