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...front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans--at just one collection point in the city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. In Batticaloa, on the eastern coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sea of Sorrow | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

Celebrity caterer Serena Bass, who plans parties for the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Ralph Lauren and Kate Spade, offers up some of her party-throwing secrets in Serena, Food & Stories. Bass cooked her first dinner party at age 16 (for her older sister's boyfriend) by reading directly from a cookbook, and the experience shows: her precise directions and encouraging, down-to-earth tone make it easy for even the most tentative cook to do the same. The recipes are for creative, homestyle foods with innovative gourmet touches like adding juniper berries to potato salad. The book is dotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perfect Party Plans | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Virginia accent. He has always been dapper, but now he is a dapper old man. His appearance is not so much wolfish as avian: his frame is slight, his nose hooked and beaky, his mischievous smile a little snaggle-toothed. His hair is midlength and floppy, ŕ la David Spade. He still wears his trademark white suit, accessorized with some kind of high-gloss old-timey shoes, but it hangs a little loose on him. When he reads small print he dons a pair of white-framed glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I am Still Tom Wolfe | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Amongst the 21 tracks by Sandler are a host of collaborations with celebrity comedians, including Saturday Night Live veterans David Spade, Molly Shannon and Rob Schneider. Topics covered in these jokes vary from what has become the ordinary for Sandler—innumerable jokes centered around potty humor—to the extraordinary, including the ins and outs of what you never knew it means to be a “Best Friend” on the track entitled as such. Intermingling with such innocuous lyrics like “Best friends tell you when you?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Review: Shh..Don't Tell | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

Haan said that though there have been attempts to lure prominent comedians to Harvard in the past, the last big-name comedy performance actually to take place at Harvard was David Spade, another SNL alum...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breuer Will Bring Act To Sanders | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

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