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As Iraq descends into a full-scale civil war, the face of the country is changing forever. Sectarian violence is forcing people from their homes, cleansing mixed neighborhoods and carving the country into ethnic enclaves. Since February, sectarian violence has forced more than 418,000 people to move, according to...
The Grey Gardens musical opens with this announcement, news-clipping style: "In a statement released today, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis confirmed that her 80-year-old aunt, Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale, and her adult daughter Edie are living in squalid conditions in an East Hampton estate known as Grey Gardens. The...
Montreux: Beyond the Blues The annual Montreux music bash is much more than just jazz The Gaza Strip's Diamond in the Rough Dare to discover the Gaza Strip's most elegant - and peaceful - refuge A Taste of Sichuan London's Ba Shan restaurant serves small dishes inspired by the...
I'm pretty jaded, but I had no idea that people were getting sick of restaurants. Apparently, though, hipster foodies in cities from Portland, Ore., to Melbourne, Australia, find the whole look-at-the-menu, eat-the-food, pay-the-check monotony so soul crushing that they're taking refuge...
Helicopters attacked a madrassa near the town of Khar just before dawn, drowning out the muezzin's call to prayer with a barrage of bullets and missiles. Within two hours the main building of the seminary had collapsed, killing some 80 men inside, according to local witnesses. The madrassa was...