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...plies the waters of peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Burma. Its six beautiful cabins accommodate up to 12 guests, who are waited on by a multiracial crew that could have stepped out of the pages of Conrad's Lord Jim (indeed, literature buffs can follow in the great author's wake, voyaging through Borneo, Brunei and Sarawak on an itinerary based on his travels). Trips can include spectacular diving, visiting deserted islands with steep karst formations worthy of a James Bond movie, and trekking through tropical rainforests. Prices vary depending on whether you want to charter the entire boat or join...
...Chinese side: mainland textbooks omit anything that casts the Communist Party in a bad light, glossing over, for example, the horror of the Cultural Revolution. Japan's wartime atrocity thus stands out starkly as the great injustice of China's modern history. And with nationalist education increasing in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, says Kingston, "younger Chinese know a lot more about their unhappy shared history with Japan than their elders...
...sexual-abuse scandals. We were tired of wondering to which lawsuits our contributions were being directed as a payout to another victim. Now priests, as you describe, are "living as hedonistically as Renaissance Popes" by stealing from the contributions made by their parishioners. When will the church wake up and allow priests to marry, so they can enjoy life with a companion as God and nature intend...
...huge chunks of ice and leaving golden-boy Mayor John Hickenlooper with a mile-high mound of woe. Seems that the city's snowplow corps didn't have enough muscle to handle the Buffalo-level cleanups. The response from ticked-off locals and the city-council president: "Hey, Mayor, wake the *&^%^@# up, will...
...where you can say, “Oh, it took me 10 hours a week.” I’m constantly on call. If I had to highlight one activity that represented the job, it’d be responding to e-mails. I’d wake up in the morning to 30 e-mails from the Pudding travel agent, publicists, and venues. I had to make sure the after-party went smoothly, the lunch, the dinner, and making sure we had venues for those. In that sense, it was an odd job because it encompasses...