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...Eternity" was a rapper from Jamaica wearing a leopard print sari (imitation) who said that she was game for anything. "The sky's the limit!" Was there any locale that scared her? "No. There's no place on earth I haven't been." On a whim I asked her about her travels to China. "That's the one place I ain't been." Figuring that Eternity was perhaps her showbiz name, I inquired what her parents had called her and was told "Anthony." Closer inspection revealed this to be correct. I bade him good-bye - and wondered if the show...
...transition plan will be tailor-made to our specific needs." Selling a market economy to Serbs may be tough. After only a few weeks in the job, Djelic is already under pressure from angry state factory workers demanding back pay and higher wages. "The former regime used to print money to pay the workers, and it led to one of the world's highest inflation rates," Djelic says. "We can't afford to repeat this mistake. I just have to tell them to be patient...
...women from my neck of the woods are frightfully unappealing, I was guilty of employing--drumroll, please--a stereotype. And as we are all taught, from our mother's teat to the nursing home feeding tube, there is nothing worse, absolutely nothing, than the use of a stereotype in print. Or anywhere else, for that matter...
...perhaps there is someone in the audience--some fresh-faced first-year journalist, maybe, bright-eyed and ink-stained--who is made uncomfortable by this crushing code of inoffensiveness. Can we never print anything wild and outrageous? he asks plaintively. Must all our writing be little more than mush and dreary pabulum...
...Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, 71, one of several so-called papabili (Italian for "Popables"). Castrillon Hoyos speaks several languages and possesses an attractive combination of real-world pastoral experience and inside-the-Vatican bureaucratic savvy. In 1999, his compatriot Gabriel Garcia Marquez sang his praises in print, recalling how the Cardinal had dressed as a civilian to meet with drug lord Pablo Escobar, and explicitly calling Castrillon Hoyos a contender. The article, in the eyes of some, raised Castrillon Hoyos' profile a bit too high...