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Remembrance of Things Past Movie stars and royalty, tycoons and world leaders?they can't all be wrong, can they? Not about sunset on the veranda of Colombo's Galle Face Hotel. A pot of Ceylon tea is on the table. Uniformed waiters anticipate every need. Attention wanders from a book to monitoring the progress of the sun's blood orange descent into the Indian Ocean. All, in short, is as it should be, the life you've always felt you deserved...
...curates the rules of chess and tabulates the world rankings. He immediately set out to reshape the sport in his own image. In an attempt to make chess more sponsor friendly, he compressed the traditional two-year championship schedule into a more dramatic three-week tournament. He sweetened the pot with liberal infusions of cash from his deep pockets and sped up the game clock, discarding the time-honored classical chess format, in which players spend hours elaborating intricate moves, in favor of rapid chess, an adrenalized variant in which each game lasts just 50 minutes. "Chess...
...Putting a Permanent Lid on Pol Pot By ROBERT HORN When Pol Pot died peacefully in his sleep in the Cambodian jungle in 1998, survivors of his genocidal rule rued that the infamous Khmer Rouge leader never stood trial for his crimes. It turns out that some form of jungle justice may have been meted out to Brother Number One after all. Thailand's Army Commander in Chief General Surayud Chulanont claimed last week he had evidence Pol Pot had actually been poisoned. According to Surayud, intelligence and autopsy reports suggest there were traces of toxic chemicals in Pol Pot...
...Cambodia that Gargan's journalistic talents shine. Uncovering the blank spots in the memory of a decimated culture where mothers no longer know how to properly feed their babies, he listens to tales of prisoners who subsisted on five grains of rice a day in Pol Pot's work camps and insightfully wonders how much of the story is being left out?what horrible deeds were committed to avoid being dragged away and bludgeoned to death. Here, unlike in Vietnam, he engages the central question of how survivors continue their lives with such a grisly past literally seeping...
...performers sparred with percussive phrases played on barrel-sized drums and copper pot-like cymbals. One group of drummers represented the agile tiger, a traditional symbol of Korea, while another group represented the booming, dragon-like power of Japan, Everson said...