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...like fried oysters and clams with basil, while sidewalk vendors peddle Taiwanese favorites like betel nut and barbecued chicken sphincters on a stick. Taiwanese madams oversee karaoke bar-brothels. Bemused new arrivals can get help with acclimation from books like the bestseller Shanghai Migrants, which advises that "a few thousand yuan a month will support a second wife, and that's a good deal because she'll also cook and clean...
...iron beneath the petite 54-year-old President's bulletproof vest. "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger," Arroyo told TIME last week. As the protesters occupied EDSA, Arroyo set up her own war room in the MalacaNang Palace. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and several thousand Elite marines and riot police were brought in to guard the riverside lanes around MalacaNang. They unspooled kilometers of razor wire around the palace; under the venerable trees of its garden marines dug in with .50-caliber machine guns. "Let them come. I'll crush them!" taunted Arroyo...
...addition to HUPD's costs, the Harvard News Office spent several thousand dollars in advertising, videotapes, film, and overtime for staff during the sit-in, according to spokesperson Joe Wrinn--who often spent more than 12 hours a day dealing with the media during the protest...
...Called Hold Still - Keep Going, a reference to Frank's to-and-froing between fixed images and movies, the exhibition indicates he also has doubts about the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Many of his photos require them, or at least he has felt compelled to scratch words across their grainy surfaces. An example is his profile of a naked woman standing before a flickering television. Scrawled across the photo is the imperative: "4AM MAKE LOVE...
...essential, lest the production sink into the pit of slavish imitation. The Loeb Mainstage is a cavernous space that has swallowed up many a smaller production and, like all student shows in the venue, Into the Woods must attempt to fill it with a budget of only five thousand dollars, a figure that has not been adjusted since the 1980s. It’s a tall order, but one which has been tackled enthusiastically by Jenny I. Marsh ’03, Adrien C. Finlay ’03 and K. Babi Das ’03, who is also...