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...born in Scotland, migrated alone to Canada at 21 and have had the privilege of working and living in Libya, Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan and Japan. As a global citizen, I count myself fortunate to have learned so much about humanity from the diverse places I have lived. Ian A.M. Robertson Kobe, Japan Liam Fitzpatrick's article, "Noodling together," about the intersection of Italian and Chinese food in Hong Kong, was interesting, but the notion that Hong Kong kids are "pestering their parents for 'Italian wontons' (ravioli)" seems to have dropped from the sky. People in Hong Kong are more accustomed...
...Paris. The new offshoot, tel: (65) 6733 0059, hopes to educate the Southeast Asian market - as well as provide succor to thirsty visitors and the area's sprinkling of whisky fans - with its splendid selection of 700 premium blends and malts, housed in the new Pier complex at Robertson Quay. Selections range from simple blends (you can pick up a bottle of Murphy's, the lightly malted Irish whisky, for $44) to fabled rarities (like a 55-year-old Benromach, priced at $4,600). Apart from labels from the established whisky-producing countries - Scotland, Ireland, the U.S. and Canada - unusual...
...hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from a singularly intelligent elephant and learns what to do when the band plays Stars and Stripes Forever: it's circus code for disaster, so run like hell...
...Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted terrorist [June 19]. President George W. Bush should rightly be enjoying an upturn in his political fortunes. I hope it's not wishful thinking to regard al-Zarqawi's death as a step toward peace and the welcome departure of coalition troops. Jeff Robertson Yellow Springs, Ohio...
...Zarqawi, Iraq's most-wanted terrorist [June 19]. President George W. Bush should rightly be enjoying an upturn in his political fortunes. I hope it's not wishful thinking to regard al-Zarqawi's death as a step toward peace and the welcome departure of coalition troops. Jeff Robertson Yellow Springs, Ohio, U.S. time reported that al-Zarqawi had a $25 million bounty on his head and that an al-Qaeda informant pointed the way to him. Al-Zarqawi's death may have been, as you stated, "a desperately needed break for the White House and the U.S. military...