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...shortlist for the Mercury Prize, Britain’s premier music award, highlights these divergent tastes. The Mercury’s idea of nodding to pop sensibility is to shortlist Coldplay whenever they release an album, but never actually award them anything—a trick they’ve been playing on Blur for years. There are always a couple of jazz or classical albums nominated just to prove how classy the award really is, though they also never actually win: high-brow classiness that stops just short of alienating its audience is the object...
...sideshow. The restaurant has a vague cowboy feel, with many quasi-artistic representations of cattle and a large number of equestrian accoutrements. In fact, should selling meat ever become uneconomical, The Midwest Grill certainly has enough leather products on display to immediately relaunch itself as Cambridge’s premier S&M supply store. As it is, however, the wall hangings do enough to convince doubtful patrons that the Midwest to which the title refers is not the repressed and repressive setting of American Gothic, but some exotic, mythical land in the Southern Hemisphere, where all falls secondary...
...quickest way to get relaxed." YU CHENG-HSIEN, Interior Minister of Taiwan, on massage. Taiwanese Premier Yu Shyi-kun has ordered an investigation into allegations that the minister received sexual massages paid for by businessmen
Said was awarded a number of prizes for his work, including Sultan Owais Prize (the premier literary prize of the Arab world), the Spinoza prize and the New Yorker Book Award for Non-Fiction for his 1999 memoir Out of Place. That same year, he was named president of the Modern Languages Association...
Naam, a dedicated “Friends” fan, said it was tough to miss the season premier of the show Thursday night to participate in the final mock competition...