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...small, nondescript restaurant run by a team of gracious, deeply devout, conservative Sunnis. In the Middle East, most restaurant workers, from the maitre d' to the dishwashers, are men. When I go to this restaurant, I feel like I am being tended by a team of sweet old uncles. They all come over, one by one, to ask how I am and how my father is. This is how I know that they are both conservative and sweet: they have met my mother, but do not want to suggest anything rude by asking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I Saw on the Road to Damascus | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

Clearly, the usher was right: the only sweet and easy parts of the play were the M&Ms from the concession stand. “The Maids” might not have made my day easier, but it closed Burkle’s directorial career at Harvard on a high note. As in any existentialist voyage, the bumps in the road make the trip worth it: the maids’ games are a ticket to the darkest corners of the soul’s cage...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burkle’s Revolution Ends in the Home | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...love and drugs aren’t Gartside’s only vices. The guy who sings like Al Green sweet-talking a 12-year old devotes an entire verse of his album’s opening song to Run-D.M.C song titles, and his production owes...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scritti Politti: Post-Punk Ecstasy | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...found its first great virtuoso. The 37-year-old alumnus of New York City's Pratt Institute has been garnering kudos-most recently a 2005 Design for Asia Award-from his studio in the sun-splashed city of Cebu (a place better known for its azure ocean and impossibly sweet mangos). Now the big time beckons. Brad Pitt recently bought Cobonpue's Voyage bed, pictured; Warner Brothers asked Cobonpue to furnish a casino set for the forthcoming Ocean's Thirteen; and distributors from Spain to Singapore are clamoring to stock Cobonpue's sexy, curvaceous designs, most of which are consummate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Watch | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...China." Says Green: "I think China is going to exert far more pressure on North Korea than they have in the past, but will still be very concerned about sanctions or other tools the U.S. can use to destabilize North Korea. The Chinese are desperately trying to find that sweet spot in the middle." People have been scouring the Korean peninsula for that spot for years; nobody's found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst of Friends | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

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