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...superhighway, if you like?is said to run from Kam Chanode in Udon Thani province to Wat Paa Ahong, a temple on the riverbank more than 100 kilometers away in neighboring Nong Khai. Pilgrims, I was told, visit Kam Chanode to anoint themselves with water from the Naga's pond...
...Hollywood is always fishing around for new ideas, and Asia is proving to be a well-stocked pond. DreamWorks has bought remake rights to the Korean romantic comedy My Sassy Girl, and Tom Cruise's production company picked up the Hong Kong-Thai ghost thriller The Eye. Dark Water, another spectral-effects drama from Ringu author Koji Suzuki and director Hideo Nakata, is to be remade in Hollywood, possibly with Nakata himself at the helm...
...Weinstein ’03 asserted last Friday morning that “Chase Manhattan endorse[s] my mic checks.” This claim was directly contradicted by the events of Friday afternoon, during which representatives of Chase Manhattan, Fleet Bank, Cambridge Trust, Felipe’s Fresh Pond Check-Cashing Service and Supreme Liquors of Central Square refused to endorse Weinstein mic checks. “That kid’s got flow like molasses going uphill,” commented Felipe...
Harvard went on to still greater success when it crossed the pond last summer and presented a record-breaking performance at the Henley Royal Regatta in Henley-on-the-Thames, England. The Crimson won three titles, a feat never before accomplished by a non-English team and also setup the first All-American final in the Brittania Cup. But this benchmark has not quenched the Crimson’s thirst for success...
...Dutch republic was tolerant, and Leeuwenhoek was left to collect samples from the teeth of old men, from fresh rainwater and from tidal pools on the coast. If Leeuwenhoek lived today, he might have been hassled by another set of beasties who make their homes not in pond water but in Washington. According to the twisted logic of a passel of ethicists, scientists and others hand-picked by the Bush administration, scraping a sample from an old man’s gums to peer at it under a microscope could be ethically questionable...