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...most of China's big ski resorts are clustered in the country's impoverished northeast. While some American ski-resort towns boast film festivals and fashionable clothing boutiques, the village houses near Lotus Mountain are made of blocks of mud mixed with straw, and the only hotel accommodation is in flimsy, prefab lodges. Donkeys porting bundles of firewood for sale roam the village. Given the rustic environment, Lotus Mountain markets itself as an ecotourism destination, but the Air Supply tunes blasting from loudspeakers placed at regular intervals along the slopes shatter the wintry calm of the setting...
...most of China's big ski resorts are clustered in the country's impoverished northeast. While some American ski-resort towns boast film festivals and fashionable clothing boutiques, the village houses near Lotus Mountain are made of blocks of mud mixed with straw, and the only hotel accommodation is in flimsy, prefab lodges. Donkeys porting bundles of firewood for sale roam the village. Given the rustic environment, Lotus Mountain markets itself as an ecotourism destination, but the Air Supply tunes blasting from loudspeakers placed at regular intervals along the slopes shatter the wintry calm of the setting...
...seats in December's parliamentary election to withdraw its nomination of incumbent Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister. The main Kurdish grievance with Jaafari appears to be his resistance to their attempts to incorporate the northern oil city of Kirkuk into their de facto autonomous mini-state; the last straw was a recent visit by Jaafari to Ankara to discuss Iraqi affairs with Turkey, which has made clear that it regards anything resembling Kurdish sovereignty on its border as intolerable. It has vowed to support Iraq's Turkmen minority, concentrated in Kirkuk, in resisting attempts to incorporate the city into...
...Barker Center and I saw some drag queens, some cows grazing, and I was struck, so I decided to explore further,” said Billy F. Gray ’06, who was waiting in front of Pennypacker for a glimpse of Berry.Pudding members were dolled up in straw hats, wigs, fishnets, ruby-red heels, and sparkly dresses.“He looks pretty,” a woman remarked when Vice President of the Cast Peter A. Dodd ’06, in a resplendent red gown, stepped out of Berry’s white limo.Berry, dressed less...
...areas of advanced science?” “I followed the debate, and I think [University President] Larry Summers was right, but he just wasn’t very tactful about his comments, and I think in a lot of ways his attackers set up straw men and attacked the straw men instead of actually attacking his points. But I don’t want to talk about this, dude, there’s no possible way you could be interviewing Tucker Max and ask me about the Larry Summers debate. Come...