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...Despite the acclaim, Thompson still pounds the streets for inspiration. "Street food is not always purely Thai food," he tells me on a stroll through Bangkok, his second home after London. "It's often food that's been imported from other cultures and assimilated." Satay hails from the Malay-speaking world. Khao man gai, a popular chicken-and-rice dish, was introduced by 19th century immigrants from China's Hainan province; their descendants still sell it on Bangkok streets. Pad Thai, perhaps Thailand's most recognized dish, is also indebted to China. "It's Chinese noodles stir-fried, but with...
...enemies, it gives our government justification for spending more and gives us another reason to feel powerless. Terrorists perceive and want to exploit us as soft, arrogant, self-righteous targets. Ripley's article shows us how, despite heroism by the likes of Jasper Schuringa, our government is still happy to oblige them. When did being proactive become so politically incorrect? William Gilchrist Whittier, Calif...
...Jury's Still Out Your naming Ben Bernanke as Person of the Year reminds me of the Nobel Peace Prize given to President Obama: both men are being congratulated in advance of any results [Dec. 28 - Jan 4]. Don't forget that Bernanke could be wrong, and then we might find the medication is worse than the illness. The final judgment will not come for a couple of years. Jean Claude Pivot Vourles, France
...year-old alongside Catherine Deneuve in the 1984 film Paroles et Musique, she's racked up 37 movie credits, including critically acclaimed turns in 21 Grams and Antichrist, which earned her a Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival last year. But despite these successes, she's still known primarily as the daughter of Jane Birkin, the gamine English model and actress, and Serge Gainsbourg, France's beloved singer-songwriter. When Serge died in 1991, the nation went into mourning and President François Mitterrand lauded him as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Carrying such celebrated...
...descends into madness after her infant son dies: she bangs her head against a toilet, masturbates naked in a forest and mutilates her own genitals. "The film was so dramatic and so extreme that it took all my thoughts away," she says. "It helped me recover." Von Trier still struggles to reconcile her raw performance in the movie with her soft-spoken manner in person. "Privately she is so shy. You can sit through a meal with her and she doesn't say anything," he says. "How can this very, very shy person do scenes like this?" (Read...