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...that--to seek out destinations that offer interest and beauty but don't seem geared for the masses. While living in Scotland a few years ago, I was one of those. I wanted to travel to the farthest reaches of Great Britain, far away from Stonehenge and Loch Ness. I traced my finger on the map and landed on the Shetland Isles, an archipelago that lies at the intersection of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, 180 miles northeast of Scotland...
...younger son (Roshan) forges a predictable reconciliation. Interspersed is the usual fare of song and dance, shot in London and, strangely, Egypt. The movie is a big hit among overseas Indians, particularly in the U.S. and England. That's because Johar has imbued his film with an Indian-ness?family morning prayers, submission to irrational patriarchs?that's no longer the reality back home. "It is all about the value of family," explains the director, whose debut movie, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, was a runaway success...
...singer-songwriter, sits in a Beijing restaurant delivering an ambitious pitch: he, too, could be a star on the mainland. Beijing rocker Road (Geng Le), his starry-eyed girlfriend Yang Yin (Shu Qi) and other members of their underground band are skeptical. The mainlanders mock Michael's Hong Kongese-ness and bait him to party like a man. Michael (Daniel Wu) reaches into his pocket and pulls out some spliffs. "Ah," says Yang, "the Hong Kong peasant grows...
...students are less well-prepared to deal with complex issues in the policy school,” says James H. Fowler ’92, a fourth-year government graduate student. “Kennedy School students are able to communicate, but there’s an ad hoc-ness they have, a lack of scientific rigor...
...doesn't have much support outside his own province of Cholla). But many Koreans place blame for their woes on the man who once stood as a national symbol of hope. Traits that helped him survive as a dissident fighting Korea's military dictatorships?unshakable self-confidence, an unwilling-ness to compromise, a fiery independent streak?have turned into liabilities. Even supporters say his authoritarian style and inability to listen have contributed to a political crisis that culminated in last week's train wreck. Sohn Ho Cheol, a former student activist and expert on Korean politics at Sogang University, says...