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...early 19th century world with engaging detail. The hay shed near the school grounds is overwhelmed by children at recess, who toss hay at each other every which way. Men and women show off beautiful costumes and masks at a village festival, where they dance to folk music. Women queue up outside church to congratulate a mother on her just-baptised baby boy. The grandfather recounts the glory of Alexander the Great to his grandchildren, while huddled round a fire. But there are more sinister details as well. A money lender fondles Apostolis to determine what degree he will overcharge...
...came down to see if I could help someone who needed emotional support,” she said, staring at a queue of taxis stopped on Broadway. “But there’s just a huge pain in my heart...
...roosters, Jos? and Dilia Amaral hurry through their morning chores. Today they have somewhere special to go. Today is Aug. 30, the day of East Timor's first democratic elections, and when the Amarals arrive at the local school soon after sunrise to vote, there's already a growing queue. "It's the start of something new," says Jos?. The morning is humid and the wait will be long, but Jos? is smiling. After all, this is a day unlike any other...
...After buying tickets, there's a second queue, longer and sometimes more costly. Security guards on watch for terrorists frisk bags and bodies at two separate checkpoints, confiscating anything from a long list of banned items, including tripods, mobile phones and video cameras. And if the guards don't get your equipment, the thieves might: pick-pockets work the lines, hoping to snatch some of the dazzling array of photographic technology on display. (Travelers' tip: stick black masking tape over the brand name on your camera...
...suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. In the U.S., yoga now straddles the continent?from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning...