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...rare chance to peek into the traditional Korean lifestyle. The regime is rigorous. Guests must maintain total silence and cut all communication with the outside world. Only the traditional monastery attire of gray pants and jacket is allowed, and beds are bare futon mats on the floor. Food is plain, vegetarian and served with elaborate ceremony at formal meals. A typical evening dinner comprises rice, soup and a few vegetable dishes. Everything that's served has to be eaten. Retreats cost $175 a week, $585 a month or $1,200 for the full three months. Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Retreats for Stressed-Out Seouls | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...heels and red cheongsam were designed by Versace, the $1.3 million diamonds were Harry Winston loaners, but down deep?the underwear, incidentally, was everyday Victoria's Secret?CoCo Lee is a plain-talking, down-to-earth, family-loving pop star whose career has skyrocketed in a remarkably short time. A Hong Kong-California hybrid, CoCo got her big break in Taiwan with a karaoke hit in 1994, which she quickly parlayed into mass fame on the Chinese mainland. Disney hired her to do the Chinese voice-over for the movie Mulan (Celine Dion's big break, remember, was voicing Beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coco Pops | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

With its lack of glamour, muddy backdrop and plain-clothes nature, Boesman and Lena, the final film of the late John Berry, is not going to be a huge box-office hit. However, its sheer simplicity, truthfulness and humanity will draw dedicated and attentive viewers with its burst of reality, thus making Boesman and Lena the perfect film to open the Harvard Black Arts Film Festival...

Author: By Desiree L. Lyle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Film Archieve Features Black Arts | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...brokers all over Wall Street checking to see if their windows opened. "I'm sorry people are losing value in their portfolios. That worries me." And then the sale: "But with the right policies, I'm confident our economy will recover.... And that means giving people money back, in plain language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Time for Bush to Up the Ante on His Tax Cut? | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

...Plain language. What Bush doesn't say anymore is that the sputtering economy and his tax cut have almost nothing to do with each other. Even if the cut is retroactive, only a tiny percentage - maybe $6 billion of the $1.6 trillion in tax relief - will find its way into American pockets this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Time for Bush to Up the Ante on His Tax Cut? | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

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