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...after the seventh or eighth tumbler of rice whiskey that the tears began to flow. Nai Tong, the weather-beaten, gold-toothed village chief, blinked hard, splashed the whiskey jug around and raised his glass. "Welcome to Sipsongpanna, daughter of the Dai. Welcome home." It was a magic moment and the culmination of an emotion-charged journey for my wife, Sawitree. She is the first of her large northern Thai family to travel back to the land of her ancestors, the Dai people, who inhabit the southern tip of China's Yunnan province. The region is now known as Xishuangbanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dai's Homecoming Queen | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...verbal stumbles; Churchill never uttered a sentence that didn't stiffen spines. Bush is fit; Churchill was whatever is fitness's opposite. Bush has forsworn the demon drink; when Churchill stayed with Roosevelt in the White House over Christmas 1941, he instructed Roosevelt's butler that he needed a tumbler of sherry in his room before breakfast, a couple of glasses of Scotch and soda before lunch, and French champagne and 90-year-old brandy before he went to sleep. About the only thing they have in common goes between the lips; very occasionally, Bush sneaks out on the Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Will Not Fail | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...Tumbler b) Mumbler c) Bumbler d) The Notorious G.W.B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Sep. 25, 2000 | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...screen swirls with zippy images: a cocktail tumbler that mysteriously waddles on an airplane meal tray, a Tinker Bell electron that darts through our hero's thoughts, a vortex of digital effects that suck you into cyberworld, and a few Fellini moments, like the tunnel full of empty cars and the ghostly accordionist on a picturesquely creepy streetscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quantum Metaphysics | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...designated one to refer to the candidates. Particularly harsh action will be taken against anyone who refers to candidate Sundance as "Timber," "Maple," or any other arboristically derived term. The names "Android," "Hal," and their ilk are also expressly prohibited in reference to Sundance. Similarly, any reference to candidate Tumbler as "Shrub," "Junior," or "Preppy" will be acted on accordingly...

Author: By Noelle Eckley, | Title: Sundance v. Tumbler, Round One | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

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