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...veggie-slicing galoot from Delhi goes to China to realize his destiny as a martial-arts master - and just from the synopsis, I'm on board with Chandni Chowk to China. For, as any video nerd-historian will tell you, the two most exciting foreign movie industries of the past few decades have been Hong Kong and India. While European filmmakers went inwardly minimalist, those teeming Asian cinemas generated robust entertainment of pinwheeling action and violence (Hong Kong) and unabashed sentiment and music (Bollywood). Different in temperament, but alike in their vigor and brio, they were both exotic and oddly...
...even a hetero sportscaster among his regular stops. Compared with his female clients, the men--in addition to being far more nervous about the pain--are extra-cautious about making sure they don't overdo it. "Five years ago, everybody wanted that frozen look," he says. "Now they tell me, 'Make me look refreshed. As few lines as possible, but I still need to have expression...
...Court case that ended the rural South's dominance in state politics, and his office challenged the exclusion of blacks from juries and represented black death-row inmates convicted by all-white panels. "The jury box and the ballot box," he said, "are the only places where citizens can tell their government what to do and the government has to listen...
...What?” You might ask. I’ll tell you what. Shut...
...among surfers, the country is celebrated for its faultless point breaks and, when the winds pick up, some world-class tubes. It didn't take long after hostilities died down for the more intrepid to return to Liberia's beaches (indeed, some gnarly old U.N. hands will tell you they never left). So while the whole country can count just a handful of decent hotels, the lead surf spot at Robertsport on Liberia's western tip now boasts two full-fledged surfer resorts, the Silversand Surfer Camp (www.surfliberia.com) and Robertsport Surf Camp (www.surfingliberia.com), with another on the way. All offer...