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What they see can be eye catching. The Thai-Chinese-British violinist who goes by the name Vanessa-Mae (full name: Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson) has a new album, The Violin Player, climbing up the worldwide pop charts on the strength of her disco-driven version of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. A photo on the single from the album features the slim, pretty teen fiddling away while standing in the Mediterranean in a soaking-wet see-through white shift. "If as a result of this, people see the violin as a fresh, trendy, up-to-date...
...Quincy House formal will take place next Sunday night at the Europa Club in Boston from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Dessert and hors d'oeuvres such as stuffed mushrooms, Thai chicken fingers and fruit and cheese will be provided, according to Candace M. Hom '96, a member of the house committee...
Almost nothing but good. Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can find excellent cappuccino and Thai food and great bookstores yet live on a quiet, treelined street and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody. Of course, there is bound to be resentment. But in the end, our prosperity will benefit everyone...
Fuhrman by Ken Lubas-Pool Holbrooke by Ivan Multinovic/Reuters Punjab by Kamal Kishore/Reuters France by Jack Dabaghian/Reuters Bernardo by Greig Reekie/Toronto Sun Liberia by Jean Marc Bouju/AP World War II by AP/File Turner by Ted Thai for TIME...
...Sarah" could have been the perfect spy. She speaks five languages, is an excellent marksman and did well in her counterterrorism course in high-speed evasive driving. She is an expert in international weapons proliferation and economics. She can pass for Mexican, Egyptian, Italian, Indian, Spanish, even Thai. On assignment for the CIA in the Third World, Sarah, decked out in dangling earrings and tight-fitting pencil jeans, foiled surveillance by fading into hooker-infested back alleys. She has sat primly in "love hotels" taking notes as informants rattled on about the doings of a terrorist cell. Sarah should have...