Word: tamed
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Singapore's nightlife isn't as tame as most of us are led to believe. The nightclubs are stylish and thriving, and the usually staid government has even lifted its ban on bar-top dancing. But if you're looking for the real party animals, make for the Night Safari...
Singapore after dark isn't as tame as most of us have been led to believe. The nightclubs are stylish and thriving, and the usually staid government has even lifted its ban on bar-top dancing. But if you're looking for the real party animals, make for the Night Safari. Just a 15-minute taxi ride from the city center, this animal sanctuary, open daily from 7:30 p.m. to midnight, offers one of the best ways of viewing tropical fauna, since so many species are nocturnal. You can see striped hyenas howling at the moon, greater...
...fairly tame night. Surprisingly tame...
Indeed, as Powell testified, "no new action is dictated by [the genocide] determination." States can meet their obligations under the convention by simply "calling upon the competent organs of the United Nations" or taking action "they consider appropriate." And what the major powers consider appropriate is tame. They have urged Khartoum to "disarm the Janjaweed," knowing full well that Khartoum funded and armed the militia and continues...
...when they should seep with accumulating terror. The script is also far less subtle than the original. Collins' Fosco is a fascinating creation - obese, aging and yet with a mind of such deviousness that Marian is spellbound. "He looks," she writes in her diary, "like a man who could tame anything ? the man has attracted me." Onstage, Fosco is reduced to a clownish rogue. "As we Italians say, The plot, she thickens," he giggles. Nonetheless, Crawford, who followed Phantom by retreating to a Las Vegas showcase, re-stakes his dormant reputation as a brilliant character actor. Even...