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...Bhutan, by contrast, had no television then, no daily newspapers, only medieval buildings. Its capital, Thimphu, basked in a stainless quiet in which everyone wore traditional, medieval clothing (as they still do), and fewer tourists arrived in a year than pile into Disneyland in an hour. The young King Jigme Singye Wangchuk was pursuing a policy of "Gross National Happiness" which said that peace was as important as plenty, and immaterial needs were at least as important as material. There is a point of diminishing returns in development, he was suggesting (in terms that more and more people now heed...
...Iraq opens with a real-life incident. In July 2003, 11 Turkish commandos were detained by U.S. troops in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. Pictures showing the detained men cuffed and with sacks over their heads provoked outrage in Turkey, where nationalist sentiment runs deep. The film proceeds to pile on fiction. Turkish intelligence officer Polat Alemdar heads to north Iraq to seek out the U.S. troops responsible and avenge Turkish honor. There he discovers a rogue unit of U.S. soldiers led by officer Sam William Marshall, played by Billy Zane. After much blood-letting, Alemdar and his men bond...
...friendships with the monks. ?They are sooooo cool,? she says. ?They are sooooo fun, and just super smart and jolly, you know?" Her Benedictine buddies won?t travel to Torino, but after the Games, Teter vows to fill them in. Since Teter and her teammates are sure to pile medals, the monks, and the surging hordes of snowboard fans, will all be jolly. And stoked...
...that scandal-and a potential five-year prison term-has tainted his persona, Horie is discovering that his fans are abandoning him. Since the raid on Livedoor on Monday, the company?s stock has dropped 52%. The press, owned by barons whom he scorned, has continued to pile on its anti-Livedoor stories. Horie has not stopped giving conferences but he looks tired and stressed while maintaining that he is cooperating with the investigation. He declares that he will be vindicated. He says that any suggestion that he will resign is ?irresponsible.? In the battle of the Hills Tribe...
...naked people just to pass the time. The administration is testing us, of course. This endless “reading” period is a farcical misnomer, a veritable play-time rather than the hell for which we paid $42,000. It is just another lemon in the large pile that Harvard deals its students. Unfortunately, I am not a juicer, and neither are my friends, so squeezing lemonade from all of our lemons is out of the question. Instead, we are stuck with an unsavory and bitter, bitter fruit that costs more than the median American income. I call...