Word: parkes
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...bronze statue of a 10-year-old Barack Obama, shod in sneakers and holding aloft a butterfly, quickly turned into a tourist attraction. Foreigners flocked to the public park in Jakarta to honor the U.S. President, who lived four years of his childhood in the Indonesian capital. Locals visited, too, but they weren't as pleased. "Indonesians mostly came to protest," says park groundskeeper Yunus. "They didn't want the statue here." Less than three months after a local Obama fan club raised $10,000 for the monument, it was quietly moved in February to a nearby school where Obama...
Tharp, 68, is talking in her penthouse apartment overlooking New York City's Central Park. It's an airy, loftlike space with blond wood floors where, if you're lucky, she'll show off a step or two to illustrate a point. Pixieish and intense, she talks fast, stares hard, answers questions with more questions. It's not hard to understand her reputation as a prickly taskmaster...
...curious bronze statue of a 10-year-old Barack Obama quickly turned into a tourist attraction. Foreigners flocked to the park in Jakarta to honor the U.S. President, who spent four years of his childhood in the Indonesian capital. Locals visited too, but they weren't as pleased. "Indonesians didn't want the statue here," says Yunus, a park keeper. After three months, the monument was quietly moved to a nearby school where Obama studied. "I'm not against Obama," says Protus Tanuhandaru, one of the founders of a Facebook page that called for the figure's removal...
Choi, now 40, was in no position to argue with an out-of-body Emeril experience, so he got off his couch in Los Angeles and enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. He worked his way up to chef de cuisine at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton and got fired as chef at Rocksugar, the Cheesecake Factory's attempt at Asian street food, before he found his calling in a kitchen on wheels.(See pictures of food truck meals...
...mails about additional Yardfest artists were pranks.” Chapman said in an e-mail, “Patrick Park, Wale, and Kid Cudi will be performing at Yardfest, and that is our complete and final lineup. We're really excited about the artists we have, and from what we've heard, so is the rest of campus...