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...Since its launch eight months ago, the unique hybrid site that is part smokinggun.com, part Entertainment Tonight and part Candid Camera, has trained its seemingly omnipresent microphones and lenses at the gated driveways of movie star residences and the velvet-roped entrances to Hollywood's hottest nightspots, while scouring public records and plumbing a deep well of sources to capture the boldface names in their habitat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping an Eye on Celebrities | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

...plays to a backdrop of traditional handicrafts and jewelry for sale, and de rigueur pictures of the "Lion of Judah," Emperor Haile Selassie, in his safari suit. The mesop-Ethiopian tables woven from colored straw-are outside under the palm trees. Soft light is diffused through red and orange velvet umbrellas, and the air is filled with an exotic mix of frankincense, mosquito coils, popcorn and coffee. The dark brew is part of the spiritual and social life in Ethiopia, and patrons can order the coffee ceremony, a half-hour ritual where the beans are ground and roasted in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clean—and Eat—Your Plate | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...mesop - Ethiopian tables woven from colored straw - are outside under the palm trees. Soft light is diffused through red and orange velvet umbrellas, and the air is filled with an exotic mix of frankincense, mosquito coils, popcorn and coffee. The dark brew is part of the spiritual and social life in Ethiopia, and patrons can order the coffee ceremony, a half-hour ritual where the beans are ground and roasted in front of you. "We make coffee to satisfy all the senses," says manager Foster Sanga. "You can see, smell, hear, touch and taste it." But it's the food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clean — And Eat — Your Plate | 7/18/2006 | See Source »

...Jahanbegloo is one of the people who was arrested in line with the U.S. effort to instigate velvet and soft revolution in Iran,” Mohseni-Ejei said, according to the Iranian Student’s News Agency. “Mr. Jahanbegloo had an assignment and the intelligence apparatus became suspicious at the scale of his activities and resources...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Petition to Free Iranian Colleague | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...Ramin Jahanbegloo is one of the people who was arrested in line with the U.S. effort to instigate velvet and soft revolution in Iran,” Mohseni-Ejei said, according to the Iranian Student’s News Agency. “Mr. Jahanbegloo had an assignment and the intelligence apparatus became suspicious at the scale of his activities and resources...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Petition for Release of Iranian-Canadian Scholar | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

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