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...film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys and Totos desperately clawing over each other for a glimpse of the Yellow Brick Road. Though the film is being marketed as a comedy...
...main gate to the south, and watch men from the tribal areas wearing curved daggers and sarongs stroll past while animated Somalians in red, orange, yellow and green robes barter with customers on Ta'Izz Road, south of the gate. If you really want to be in the thick of all this life, skip the Sheraton and bed down in a hotel tower house, or fonduk. They offer basic facilities, but have incredible atmosphere and great roof-terrace views. Check out Arabia Felix, tel: (967-1) 287 330; www.al-bab.com/arabiafelix or the Golden...
...Delirium Café, on Impasse de la Fidélité, just off the main restaurant drag of Rue Grétry, is a great place to start. Serving over 900 of the nation's finest brews, revered for their strength and diversity, and with a menu as thick as a phone book boasting these as well as more than 1,100 beers from 60 other countries, this cellar bar is a shrine to the brewer's art. In dimly lit, shrine-like surroundings, old enameled advertisements and colorful backlit beer posters adorn the walls, while wooden beer kegs double...
Admissions decisions are commonly mailed to applicants on March 31. Savvy high schoolers have been trained to look for the “thick envelope”: the large package presumably filled with the posters, housing forms, and other materials sent out to accepted students. It’s the first time a university makes its pitch to admitted students, and many schools look to woo with glossy fliers and full-color pamphlets...
...anxieties of Li and his thick-bankbooked brethren are spawning a lucrative boom in China's private-security business. The body-guarding profession was officially abolished along with other "feudal" trades after the Communists came to power in 1949, and baobiao, the Chinese word for bodyguard, retains a tinge of ill-repute. Because of this political legacy, the industry still occupies a legal gray area, but bodyguards are now in such demand that the top earners can make $5,000 a month. "As China's economy develops, safety problems will increase, and that means businesses like ours will continue...