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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...watch me eat until I've finished every last bite. “Nimesheba”—“I'm full”—is a foreign concept to them. So, I will once again eat six chapati a day and pray that my digestive system can hold...

Author: By Kate Leist | Title: Taste Test | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...moments since we’ve left the line, it’s grown into the “Stand-by Line.” The desperate pray for cancellations while waiting for last-minute tickets. We give it a shot. "What are you waiting for?" Three older men in too-short running shorts, tank tops, and sweatbands approach. We explain about Shakespeare in the Park, about people sleeping overnight on Central Park West. "Oh," says one man. "the neighborhood's going to the dogs." Another adds: "Four pretty girls should never sleep on the street...

Author: By Emily C. Graff | Title: The Summer of our Discontent | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...give this stand-by line thing up as a bad job. It's meant to rain tonight, anyway, and we shake our fists at the heavens and pray it pours so we can rationalize our disappointment. Damn that Annie Hathaway and her Devil-Wears-Prada popularity...

Author: By Emily C. Graff | Title: The Summer of our Discontent | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...afloat, frets that she may be forced to close. Babylon welcomed 800 visitors per day before the recession hit. That number now hovers around 500. "The entrance fee is already low, so dropping it won't make a difference," Pong says. So what's a sauna manager to do? "Pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Bangkok to Berlin, Hard Times Hit the Sex Trade | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...JamesDobsonDoesntSpeakForMe.com last summer when the Focus on the Family leader accused Obama of "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview." Obama chose Jakes to preach the sermon at a private prayer service the morning of his inauguration and reached out to him to pray by phone on other occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obamas Find a Church Home — Away from Home | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

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