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...license, wait until next year. The line at your Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) may well be out the door and around the corner--assuming the office is even open. And when it's finally your turn at the counter, expect to pay more for that really bad mug shot taken by an especially grouchy DMV jock who has just been told not to plan on any pay raises before the kids leave home. You can only hope the experience doesn't leave you with an ulcer, because if you're on any kind of health-care assistance...
Credit where credit is due: before Paul Oakenfold’s mug and shades graced MTV’s cotton candy airwaves, the man was a bona-fide pioneer. As the DJ behind such culture-defining parties as Future and Land of Oz at London superclub Heaven, Oakenfold was once at rave music’s very forefront. His production work on the Happy Mondays’ Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches foresaw Ecstasy culture’s invasion of pop art, and his genre-hopping 1994 Goa Mix broke boundaries. Let no one question...
...universalist religion of humanitarianism and human rights--a faith without borders, like globalization, or like communism in the old days--has its optimists, who imagine a future of triumphant international decency, and its pessimists, who think expecting people to be nice is a mug's game. David Rieff is a pessimist--a gloomy pessimist at that. At the end of his ruthlessly lucid book A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster; 367 pages), Rieff, with disconsolate satisfaction, quotes Alberto Navarro, former director of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office, as saying, "Mankind is slowly...
...shrewd recruiting. Bertarelli's millions allowed the team to poach Coutts, who had skippered the winning New Zealand boat in 1995 and 2000, as well as his tactician, Brad Butterworth. The investment has made Alinghi a favorite to win the elimination rounds and challenge New Zealand for the Auld Mug, as the America's Cup is known. The scramble to sign up the best crew and sailing technocrats has given each team a multinational cast, which should hardly be surprising in a world where sport, commerce and culture know few borders. Oracle, representing the U.S., draws 28% of its team...
WHERE CUPPAS COME FROM Coffee fiends couldn't concoct a better wake-up call: sip a steaming mug of joe on the balcony of your own villa, overlooking the very bushes that produced the beans. This caffeine dream can become reality at the Losari Coffee Plantation and Resort...