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...first half-dozen courses are just nibbles to go with sake; the real meal is rice. In fact, the Japanese words for "meal" and "rice" are the same, gohan. That night's main event was another matsutake masterpiece, which the okami-san herself dished from the old-fashioned pot. The final bowl of shaved ice and matcha-tea syrup combined a clever reference to the tea ceremony with a last, nostalgic taste of summer...
...white polo shirt and with his graying hair neatly combed, the rail-thin 65-year-old appeared relaxed as he rose, pressed his palms together and addressed the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal on Tuesday at the first public hearing of a former member of Pol Pot's brutal regime...
...made at a later date. Meanwhile, the tribunal will be busy in coming months: Lawyers for the four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders now in detention have already submitted similar appeals or are planning to do so, court officials said. The actual trials of the five suspects - Duch; Pol Pot's second-in-command Nuon Chea; Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith, the regime's minister of social action; and Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan - are expected to start in March or April next year...
...question has been in the back of my mind for years,” Glenn said in an interview today, noting that scholars’ speculations have ranged from chamber pots to safety matches. Glenn published his findings in Slate late last month, under the headline, “Is it a Chamber Pot? Nope! A Century-Old Literary Mystery, Solved...
...some 30 years since the Khmer Rouge regime committed its crimes, the arrest of the elderly pair - Sary is 82 and Thirith is 75 - was little consolation. "Why are you only coming to ask questions now?" she asks, noting that there seemed to be more media attention on Pol Pot's terrifying reign now than there was when he was actually in power. "[The regime] was a long time ago already...