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...Enter the Hawaiian-born Fal Allen, bringing with him two decades of brewing experience in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. He thought he had a grasp of the basics of Asian food-until he arrived in Singapore. "There's a lot of stuff that I've seen versions of, but you come here and you see eight versions of it," he says, marveling at the mango varieties on display at Singapore's Pasir Pajang wholesale market...
Bumblebees defy the physics of flight, helicopter pilots like to say - and so it seems do the whirlybirds flying, and too often crashing, in Iraq recently. The crash of a Marine Sea Knight chopper northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday - killing all seven aboard - marks the fourth time a U.S. military helicopter has gone down in Iraq in just more than two weeks (an additional downing was of a U.S. contractor's chopper). Like clockwork, al-Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgents quickly claimed responsibility for Wednesday's downing, which brought to 28 the number of helicopter fatalities in the five crashes...
...even mention how other genres have glorified Chicago at Indiana's expense - like Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North By Northwest, in which Cary Grant gets chased between Chicago and Indianapolis. In Chicago, Cary does suave, urbane things like thwart the bad guys at a high-rent art auction; in Indiana he gets attacked by a crop duster in a scene that makes the rural fields I used to run in look like a benighted dust bowl. Frank Sinatra sang about Chicago's Union Stockyards - but never about the Indianapolis stockyards I worked at in the summers with my grandfather...
...events "take us back to square one," said Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as he addressed a tumultuous session of Parliament the next day. Indeed, the grisly bus massacre shattered New Delhi's claims that terrorism was on the wane and dimmed hopes for future political stability in the troubled northwest Indian state. Sikhs, who make up 2% of the Indian population but form a majority in Punjab, have long wanted greater autonomy from the central government in New Delhi. But even before the Indian army's bloody 1984 invasion of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine...
...what about scheming Walter Burns in His Girl Friday, one of the funniest misanthropes ever recorded by the camera? For that matter, what about Gunga Din, The Philadelphia Story and Only Angels Have Wings? Or the unforgettable work for Hitchcock?Suspicion, Notorious and, possibly best of all, North by Northwest...