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...smart enough not to predict the future of Hong Kong, but one wonders if the city's endless capacity for renewal?its greatest gift?will survive without the constant influx of new schemers, dreamers and refugees to clap fresh eyes on that bustling harbor, and breathe deep its pungent fragrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold Harbor | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...CORRECTION: Last week, Gossip Guy called Hallie F. Matthews ’02 “a filthy and untrustworthy harpy whose personality defects are only matched by her pungent odor.” Ms. Matthews is actually a member of the Class...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 4/25/2002 | See Source »

...fatigue, irritability and the occasional blinding migraine?and scribbled a prescription. "Don't worry, we can help you." A day later, I was in treatment, lying flat on my back with a thin stream of heated oil drizzling onto my forehead. For 40 min. two barefoot attendants poured a pungent green oil over my brow in a gentle back and forth motion. It might sound like slow torture, but the shirodhara oil treatment is deeply relaxing and said to cure migraines. It's one of the more common prescriptions in the Ayurvedic school of medicine, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching a cure in Sri Lanka | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...some of our wonderful meals together--like one Christmas dinner at her house in the South of France. We went into Paris to buy foie gras and fresh truffles at Les Halles. We took two big fresh truffles into the train compartment, and they were so pungent they almost suffocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Paring Down | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...getting to the bottom of the Enron mess but of also being a friendlier place for corporate accountants to come with questions about what they should and shouldn't do. And for all Pitt's genially droning delivery, and all the time he spent dodging grandstanders digging for pungent quotes on Bush's budget priorities, at least the general theme of the exchange was figuring out - and fixing - the real problem. As Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., put it: "What shocked me was how close Enron came to being completely legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enron Hearings: Is Boring Better? | 2/5/2002 | See Source »

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