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...pandas --fake Louis Vuitton handbags --Rumble in the Bronx II --black U.S. Army berets --Gap clothes --kung pao chicken --decent firecrackers --deer-antler powder --Falun Gong workout craze --kanji tattoos --7-ft.-tall B-ball players --campaign contributions --a place to dig holes...
...first grabbed the international community's attention in Slovenia in June 1991 would roll inexorably eastward. In time, they said, it would run up against the uneasy ethnic mix in Macedonia, the Yugoslav republic cursed with a contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear by diplomats and human rights monitors who made the same plea: we've got to do something...
...There was strong Arab bias against Sharon when he was elected, but Washington was pleading with Arab states to keep their powder dry and judge Sharon by his actions rather than by his reputation. And the Bush administration is claiming some credit for the fact that Arab reaction to Sharon has been muted...
...moment my life involves staring at my computer running regressions, waiting on a Sunday afternoon for what I read between the lines. Not that much has happened in music. Sporty Spice has left the Spice Girls, which leaves the group yet another fennel seed short of five-spice powder. And filtering has started: A search for "Oops I Did it Again" on Napster this week found songs by "Brittany," "Brittney," and "Britny" Spears. Great. Just like those bootleg CDs you find in the alleys of Thailand...
...Jacky's hut, Bing and a few bar girls are seated with their legs folded under them, taking hits from the sheets of tinfoil. As Jacky applies a thick layer of foundation makeup to her face, and then dabs on retouching cream and then a coating of powder, she talks about how tonight she has to find a customer; she needs to make a thousand baht. She'll work the dance floor at Angel's and, if she can't pick up a foreigner, she'll try Thermae, a sleazy after-hours joint and the evening's last resort...