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...each teen, Burstein has located a dramatic arc, twist and payoff. Colin needs to rack up points to impress the scouts, so he becomes a selfish player, taking all the shots and not passing off. Will he learn the value of teamwork before the big game? Megan is desperate to get into Notre Dame, where her father and siblings have gone, but she courts suspension with nasty pranks: promiscuously e-mailing a topless photo of another girl and making catty calls to her; wreathing a rival's car in toilet paper, then spray-painting a penis and the word...
...keeping with rock tradition, alternative is defiant. The twist is what it's rebelling against. What angers today's rockers and their fans is that life is so unjust, which they learned at a vulnerable age. Alternative rock is the sound of homes breaking. If you are in your teens or 20s, chances are your family has been through a divorce. Alternative music has become an emotional sound track, speaking directly to unresolved issues of abandonment and unfairness. "I tried hard to have a father/ But instead I had a dad," Nirvana's Cobain sings on In Utero...
...decision to halt the case - it can be reopened if compelling new evidence emerges - marks only the latest twist in a frenetic and far-flung search for Madeleine that has at times had much of the world transfixed. Soon after she vanished from the family's vacation apartment in the southern Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz - parents Kate and Gerry were eating at a tapas bar in the resort complex at the time - a high-profile push to find Madeleine was launched. Soccer star David Beckham appealed for information. Kate and Gerry McCann even secured a brief audience...
...besides their mission is that they are bred-in-the-bone products of American pop culture. They quote South Park while rolling through the blasted countryside. They sing along to Avril Lavigne, compare combat to Grand Theft Auto and recite N.W.A. lyrics for inspiration. One of them--in a twist on a famous theory of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's--suggests American consumerism will pacify Iraq. "How else we going to make these hungry motherf___ers want to stop killing everybody? Put a McDonald's on every f___ing corner. If we gotta blow up the corner, then...
...pepper crocodile puff, perfectly fried oysters accompanied by four sauces, and squid-ink spaghetti tossed in spicy XO sauce - a Cantonese condiment made with dried seafood and chili, but containing none, incidentally, of the XO cognac from which it takes its name. Even the cocktails come with a savory twist - one, Myth of the Orient, contains soy sauce and chili peppers. Proprietor Loh Lik Peng, who also owns the New Majestic boutique hotel next door, says that the bar's menu was intended to offer "a more substantial dim sum that can be paired with alcohol." And the biggest seller...