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Brideshead Revisited Directed by Julian Jarrold; rated PG-13; out now "Don't be such a tourist," Sebastian Flyte chides his college chum when they arrive at the titular house. But gawking is the appeal of this not-mandatory version of the Evelyn Waugh novel. Much is made of the...
In 2007 I moved into a quiet hutong, a traditional narrow lane lined with courtyard houses, in eastern Beijing. Since April, the city's Olympic buzz has reached deafening proportions. In a period of months, my district, laid out 700 years ago during the Ming dynasty, saw lanes repaved, streetlights...
"For those of us who are not brain surgeons, driving is probably the most complex everyday thing we do," writes design journalist Vanderbilt in this look at the intricacies of the open road. Full of scads of cocktail-party factoids (half of all American road crashes occur at intersections; Saturday...
For many of the 540,000 residents of El Paso, Texas, life these past four weeks has been noticeably less stressful. They have enjoyed less traffic on their streets. They have been able to walk and drive through downtown without being accosted by panhandlers, windshield washers and purse-snatching kids...
It's difficult to imagine a more inflammatory book title that wouldn't result in a visit from the Secret Service. Bugliosi, a star prosecutor and author of the Manson family true-crime best-seller Helter Skelter, aims to inflame. He wants the American public to finally get furious over...