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Looking left on foggy days, there was nothing to be seen. A cloudy sky veiled downtown Manhattan, and the Twin Towers appeared to be gone. As if stolen, the magnificent architectural masterpieces were nowhere to be seen. On these mornings I wondered if Carmen Sandiego had plucked the towers out of the World Trade Center and carried them off to her secret hideout...
...Democracy is still young in East Timor, but on election day it passed its first test. By the time voting ended, the gold light of the day had slipped from the sky. Cooking smells floated on the air, people sat on street corners and radios played. Jos? and Dilia Amaral put their children to bed. It was so peaceful in Dili that it seemed the events of the day were an ordinary part of life. Which, of course, is just the way it should...
...Chow Yun-fat who can make the crossover to the Hollywood big leagues, but its industry is getting noticed. "These are very sophisticated filmmakers," says Dede Nickerson, who heads Asian acquisitions and co-productions at Miramax, which recently bought the martial arts fantasy Bi Chun Moo (Sky-Flying Martial Art). "It is a very strong emerging market...
...Keenan says he wanted to capture "the essence of the Tua-reg people." In between visits to the rock art sites, with anecdotes about jealous volcanic piles and impromptu gazelle hunts, terrifying sandstorms and quiet nights under the Sahara sky, he somehow does. Pity then that he subjects his work to treatment strangely similar to the desecration he decries. For in his book, there is beauty beneath, a vivid portrait of his embattled Sahara Man, the Tuareg. But to see it, you have to look past the marks of an outsider, the signature of one who likes...
...something seems lost amid this great leap forward. The Square underwent yet another cuisine transformation through the dog days of August as Ma Soba closed. The late-night food party is over too, as Store24 has gone to the great shopping strip in the sky. A C’est Bon café and store has opened in its place and will stay open until 2:30 a.m. on weekends, but it will have difficulty replacing the generic products and round-the-clock service of Store24...