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When one thinks of love, especially theatrical love, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet inevitably comes to mind. For five hundred years, company after company has put up this classic tale of star-crossed lovers; it has been copied, adapted, and updated a thousand times...
...Yeltsin was not only brave; he was very lucky. The world's media focused on the crowds outside the Russian White House, where he was holed up. The atmosphere there was indeed inspiring -thousands of people prepared to shield with their bodies their last hope for change. Yet these many thousand people were a tiny fraction of the city's population, And there were few such demonstrations in other cities and towns across the USSR. Most people were sitting and waiting. Would the military have moved against the White House if someone had given the order? Some would have...
...says Allan Goldfarb, professor in the exercise and sports science department at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Developing a toned stomach requires not just abdominal exercises but also a low-fat diet and lots of whole-body aerobic activity. "Typical stuff," he says, "that you've heard a thousand times before...
...than $1.2 billion and interests in sectors ranging from cell phones to satellites. His confidence is that of a man who has had vast, bankable successes. His election campaign inculcated in Thais the idea that if he could make billions for himself, then surely he could generate a few thousand baht for the bar girls, farmers and noodle sellers. During his campaign, almost every neighborhood seemed festooned with his Thai Rak Thai (Thai Love Thai) party's red, blue and white logo, and the Bangkok taxi drivers and Chiang Mai tuk tuk operators would flash you a grin...
...will be a shame, and an opportunity wasted. Memory has a richly self-stimulating dynamic. You remember one detail - an image from long ago, or, quite often, a smell (smell and song being extraordinary stimuli to memory), and soon those images or smells or lyrics breed a thousand more, and an entire world comes flooding back. The lost world reassembles itself as story...