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Even officials like Kumar are torn between their commitment to social order and a culture that loves nothing more than a good time. "I'm supposed to be going to one of my relations' wedding this weekend," he says, "and they just phoned to say my office has forced them to move to another venue. I'm not sure I'm going to be the most popular man at the party." Far better to be a father of the bride like Chopra, who by 10 p.m. is onstage singing John Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane to his guests...
...then, much later, dug up again. Robinson reports that a leather-bound codex containing the alleged 5th century Coptic version was excavated in Egypt and emerged on the antiquities market in 1983 at a price of $3 million. It was badly damaged and apparently at one point had been torn in half. It is now possessed by a group called the Maecenas Foundation, and in 2004 a Coptic expert named Rodolphe Kasser announced that he was reassembling and translating it. "There are huge holes in it, unfortunately," says Mario Roberty, Maecenas' director. "But I'm astonished at how successful scientists...
...like? After "The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie" (the name of an actual Occidental College course), was there not a need for a doll that "looks like America"? Absolutely, but diverse is one thing, dissolute another. Most critics focus on the clothes, which lean past trendy to trashy: torn jeans, bare navels, platform shoes, microskirts with chains. It's easy to imagine that behind those pouting lips lies a pierced tongue. But that's not really the issue. You could strip them naked, re-outfit them from Cinderella Barbie's closet and still have a problem...
...Even officials like Kumar are torn between their commitment to social order and a culture that loves nothing more than a good time. "I'm supposed to be going to one of my relations' wedding this weekend," he says, "and they just phoned to say my office has forced them to move to another venue. I'm not sure I'm going to be the most popular man at the party." Far better to be a father of the bride like Chopra, who by 10 p.m. is onstage singing John Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane to his guests...
...meet) as the two women gaze at one another. Ah, love at first sight. The other woman is Luce (Lena Headey “The Brothers Grimm)), a happy-go-lucky florist with exquisitely well-defined cheekbones and glorious auburn tresses. Of course, Rachel is now a married woman torn between leaving the man who has stood by her and coming out of the closet. And to boot, it’s a closet she didn’t even know she was in. Awkwardness abounds when Rachel hesitantly asks her co-workers if they believe in soul mates...