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...They want you to believe it's an exercise," Anna says. "Well, we all know the President will declare war. I come from a military family, and I know how it goes." One of her brothers is a master sergeant in the Marines; the other is now a police officer but was a Marine in Desert Storm. "They said Desert Storm was an exercise, right up until you turned on the TV and saw they were bombing Baghdad. I know it's his job and he has to go. But D'Artagnan doesn't understand, and he asks...
Fuller is a master of blending music, television and manufactured celebrity. In the mid-'90s, he managed the top pop confection known as the Spice Girls. In 1999 he launched the TV band S Club 7 (renamed S Club after a member left), a collection of British twentysomethings who have belted out 10 Top 10 pop hits in Britain and made four TV series. Next came a youth offshoot, S Club Juniors. Naturally, Fuller is planning to create the American Juniors--or the AJs--five U.S. kids ages 8 to 14 whom he will find, groom and turn into...
...were waiting for him in a car outside Karachi's Metropole Hotel. Three were given life sentences. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 29, a smooth-talking, British-educated Islamic militant who had served jail time in India for kidnapping Western tourists, received the death sentence for acting as the master planner of Pearl's abduction and killing...
...Distilled fish remains might not strike everyone as a culinary delight, but don't tell that to Bang or anyone else on Phu Quoc Island. The spry septuagenarian is Phu Quoc's undisputed master taster of nuoc mam, the fermented fish sauce that is the heart of Vietnamese cuisine. This tiny island off the southern coast is famed for producing the best nuoc mam in the world. Nearly half of Phu Quoc's economy is dependent on nuoc mam, with 90 family-owned factories producing 10 million liters a year and passing their secrets down from generation to generation...
...Chinese emigre authors who received advanced education in the West are more likely to write in English. Both Ha Jin and Jung Chang hold doctorates from Western universities, and Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain, received a law degree from Columbia University. Anchee Min completed a master's in fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago...