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...journey, Bodhgaya—the spot of Buddha’s enlightenment—would house its own flavor of touts. “You think I want money; I just guide people for good karma of helping. What are you looking for?”“Umm... enlightenment. Now jayo, bhaya: get out of here.”An eight-year old kid in Bodhgaya latched onto my friend and I. Chutto told us he wanted to practice his English, and he took us to his family’s one-room hut, adjacent to the tent...

Author: By Max J Kornblith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In a Puri State of Mind | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...situation. It’s not what you think.” Caleb said something on the other end of the line. “I was until today,” she said. “I know, can I call you back? Umm, like in 20 minutes?” She laughs. “Okay, go take a shower.” Andrea told me that she jokes to Caleb that they should have “a marriage of political convenience.” “I could help him get elected in western Texas...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...been in the VIP room of your favorite club with a girl kissing on you and just when you think you’re getting some, “she takes a big sip out yo cup and says it’ll be 60 bucks?” (Umm, no, that is really only you.) According to T-Pain, he’s officially been chopped n skrewed. Now that’s catchy. Just makes you want to go to the nearest party and at the first sign of a failed pick-up, point, laugh, and yell...

Author: By Keara D. Cormier-hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: T-Pain | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Name 10 American female celebrities with gray hair. Umm ... Meryl Streep. But only in character and only occasionally, such as in The Devil Wears Prada. O.K., how about Emmylou Harris and Jamie Lee Curtis ... and that woman on the Food Network, Paula Dean, and ... and ... O.K., but that's show business. Surely there are nationally famous gray-haired women in more workaday fields, in business and politics and the professions? Uhhh ... Barbara Bush? In fact, we have almost no high-profile, female, gray-haired role models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Over Going Gray | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...Umm Faisal's defiant, one-woman stand is helping spur the unusual public debate about the mutaween's role and actions. Saudi newspapers and blog sites have been filled with reports and commentaries on the subject. A campaign using text messages sent to mobile phones is calling on a million Saudis to declare that "2007 is the year of liberation" from the mutaween. Apparently responding to the discontent, the Shura Council, a quasi-legislative body that advises the monarchy, recently rejected requests to give the commission a 20% pay raise for its members and funds to open additional offices around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vice Squad | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

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