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...Bagus Putu Wija, communed with the resident spirits about our vague plans to build a holiday home there. Eventually, the Balinese wise man gave us the news that would literally determine the shape of our future villa. In the parallel spirit world of this devoutly Hindu island, our peaceful stretch of riverbank was actually a bustling spirit town, far bigger than the nearby human village...
...think people got the message when Nas said [in the title of his 2006 album] Hip Hop Is Dead. There was just a lack of creativity, a lack of fresh energy in the music. When people don't stretch and expand and try different things, music gets boring. That's what hip-hop was suffering from--a bad case of monotony...
...Taiji. Substitutes like Yao and Taiji were key in yesterday’s game and backup goalies junior Laura Dale and senior Maggie Robinson looked impressive, as well. “We just try to get as many people played in as possible as we go down this final stretch,” Leone said. Maine had one opportunity in the first half, when a botched header led to a Black Bear breakaway. Dale, however, saved the ensuing shot to preserve the shutout. But Harvard was unable to dominate the second frame like it did in the previous half...
...July after UNESCO awarded world-heritage status to the 900-year-old temple. It was built by ancient Khmers, the dominant ethnic group in Cambodia, who also constructed the famous Angkor Wat complex. Although the U.N. agency accepted Cambodia's sole claim of the site, Thailand believes that a stretch of land that is used to access the temple is rightfully its own. In 1962 the International Court of Justice ruled that the temple was in Cambodian territory, but it sidestepped the issue of the access route. For weeks in July and August, hundreds of soldiers faced off along...
...terrorist bombing was a response to a major military campaign started in August to eliminate Shining Path positions from a jungle-mountain stretch known as the Apurimac-Ene River Valley or VRAE. Besides housing the Shining Path, the VRAE is also the second most important area in Peru for coca, from which cocaine is produced. The VRAE has close to 40,000 coca plants and can produce around 100 tons of cocaine annually...