Word: teas
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...posse - including Helen Mirren, Hugh Laurie, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Irons and Bill Nighy - were the night's big winners and big charmers. Why this makes us want to throw tea into the Beverly Hilton pool, we have no idea. But we're pretty sure we can talk the Latin posse (three Mexican directors, Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek), into helping us. If not, we'll have Governor Schwarzenegger look into their immigration status...
...know - the British drank tea, not coffee, so there was no particular reason to think that they would know how to make a good cup of java. Thing is, if anything, the tea in those "genuinely local shops" was worse than the coffee. You could either take your tea "as it comes," which meant weak as dishwater. Or you could take it strong - which was, it was thought, how the working class took their cuppa, and hence how slumming members of the bourgeoisie such as George Orwell insisted on having it. In that case, you put one teaspoonful of leaves...
...begrudge Pelosi her four-day "coronation," as right-wing wags have dubbed it? The events themselves are hardly ostentatious: there's a mass, a tea, and prayer service. The most raucous thing on the schedule is a concert by Tony Bennett. Add a tote bag and it'd be a PBS telethon. Indeed, the demographic-pleasing tenor of the events reeks of a self-conscious desire to highlight all soft-focus interest groups that come with the Pelosi package: Italian, female, Catholic, grandmother. With so many facets illuminated, perhaps Pelosi's people are hoping no one notices what's been...
...agenda" already entails suspending the gauzy promise of bipartisan civility that moderate Democrats ran on. Rather, the Democrats will use House rules to prohibit opposition measures - the exact sort of "tyranny of the majority" that the former minority party has been railing against for years. Whatever the stage set (tea or Mass), the week ahead will likely be less a coronation for Pelosi than a long, behind-the-scenes horse-trading auction...
...Qixia village chiefs unexpectedly showed up at our Beijing bureau in their new shirts. "There are some peasants to see you," an alarmed assistant announced. "They seem quite scared. You'd better come quickly." I returned to the office to find the men awkwardly clutching mugs of tea in their shaking hands. They updated me on some of the people I had interviewed for the story: Three, including Lin Zuoyun, who was sitting in my office, had been brutally beaten. Two were under house arrest. A third - Sun Xuede, who had been elected with 85% of the vote - had disappeared...