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...settle into the lulling comfort of an Indian sanctuary - a spa, a luxury hotel, an ashram - only to be drawn out of it by their conflicting desires. All three of them start slipping away from their cozy images of themselves, and begin going native on the dark side of town, even as the Indians around them are becoming more like Americans. The fact that the title refers both to a room in a fancy hotel and to a set of movements in a musical sequence gives you some sense of how Theroux can charge his compulsive stories with the resonance...
...drew the curtains and lit the fire: bright light, they thought, might drive a laboring Anne insane, and locals construed the birth of her twins as the result of "inordinate sexual desire." When Anne's son died at age 11, perhaps of cerebral palsy, mourners carried his body through town on a tabletop. Respectful townspeople laid down their tools as the procession, led by Anne, passed...
...centuries. "It's a living nightmare," says Roula Baziotopoulou, standing on the tip of a craggy cliff, watching flames close in on the home she was born in, near the heart of the Peloponnese peninsula. "We're doomed." Not far from her, on the other end of the hilltop town of Karnasi, a daring housewife stands defiant. She and her son have refused to evacuate the town, reaching for a skimpy yellow garden hose to shield their nine white goats, 14 roosters and garden of olive, lemon and fig trees from the blaze tearing through the town. "I have...
...reportedly recently got into a bidding war over the remains of a $276,000 Asian T-rex - the paleontological paradise of Chaoyang is under threat. Farmers and dealers are hard at work disturbing potentially valuable sites in the race to find specimens to sell. In a cornfield outside of town, farmers have sliced open an entire hill. Layers of earth, each covering deposits millions of years old, protrude naked, leaving only broken slabs of rock. Along the road back into town, farmers ride bicycles with shovels lashed to their backs, returning home after a hard day's treasure-hunting...
...Senator, I'm a dying breed, I'm a moderate Republican," Bob Warren, a 59-year-old insurance executive, of Bedford, New Hampshire said by way of introduction to Senator Barack Obama at a small campaign gathering in town earlier this week...