Word: mongolia
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...seem crowded and fussy." Inspired by what he perceives as the Arcadian freedom of the nomads?the word Mongo-lian, he writes, "evokes the scent of grass and of fallen leaves, some atmosphere of twilight and horses"?Stewart plans to journey the 1,600-kilometer breadth of Mongolia by horse, not a good idea unless your last name is Khan. Those he encounters along the way are sure he's crazy, and Stewart, wrestling with ill-tempered Mongolian horses and occasionally incompetent guides, is tempted to agree. But he ultimately achieves his goal, carried along by the endless promise...
...progressed. Stewart: I went with the traditional idea of nomads as a free-wheeling, liberating force. But in fact, they are extremely conservative. I brought a saddle of my own, which shocked people because this was not a Mongol saddle. This was not the way things were done in Mongolia. It's a very non-experimental society. Very little had changed in 750 years...
...several rigorous regimens, fasts and colonics designed to clean the body inside and out. As a cleansing client, this means I spend my days in Thailand ingesting nothing but murky "shakes" of volcanic clay, psyllium husk and watermelon juice?all the while undergoing daily coffee colonics. In Nepal or Mongolia?places with little culinary cachet?fasting might make sense. But in the kingdom of miang khum and larb gai, skipping a dinner of piquant red-curry snapper in favor of clay is just cruel...
...Vermont with a degree in literature (yes, he read The Quiet American). While there he became fluent in Hungarian and met his wife, also a Corps volunteer, with whom he has a three-month-old daughter. He served as a desk officer in Washington and an administrative officer in Mongolia before arriving in Moscow last year. When his predecessor left Russia last June, Hay became acting country director. This is not his first brush with controversy. In August, 30 volunteers who'd been in Russia for a year were denied visa extensions. The Russian Education Ministry, which coordinates Corps' activities...
...deans of the departments of literature, direction, sound, art and design explained the divergence between subject matter and aesthetics for the Fifth and Sixth Generations. Because the former endured the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution (two of the deans were themselves exiled for a time in Inner Mongolia and forced to perform menial labor), his films invariably focus on the prevalent socio-economic problems of the day, with a sympathetic bias towards the experience of minority nationalities. On the other hand, having grown up amid rapid economic progress and material comfort in burgeoning regional cities, the Sixth Generation filmmakers...