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...Francophone ballad and the record’s most understated track. As strained cello and Spanish guitar pepper the undercurrent of snare drum and legato piano, Forbes murmurs with a distant passion. It doesn’t matter whether you can understand the lyrics, whose protagonist “whisper[s] sweet nothings to all the girls of France” and “hopes that they respond.” Forbes’s voice, echoing cavernously under heavy reverb, oozes unrequited love and regret entirely...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grads Grow A Tasty ‘Tomato’ | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

When I visited Iran a few years ago, my favorite question was, "Who runs this country?" The response often was nervous laughter, followed by a raised eyebrow, a shrug and a stage whisper: "The dark forces." My next question-"The dark forces?"-would elicit the weaving of my interlocutor's own fabulously intricate conspiracy theory. "It's very Persian," a young businessman told me. "We're very conspiracy-minded." So let's indulge ourselves and think like Persians about recent events in the Middle East. Here's my conspiracy theory: It starts with the fact that no one really does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iran Factor | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper--as faint as the vermouth in a martini--of Cormac McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Guilt-Free Pleasures to Read at the Beach | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

Fans of Florida Governor Jeb Bush often like to whisper that he, not George W., was the brother who should have been President. Jeb, they insist, is the smart one, and the more genuine conservative. So they felt especially smug last month when President Bush, on the same day his poll numbers plunged to 31%, visited Florida to tout his Medicare prescription plan with the help of Jeb, whose own numbers have hovered in the mid-50s since he took office in 1999. Descending Air Force One, the President playfully straightened Jeb's necktie on the Tampa tarmac - and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Brother: Is There a Second Act for Jeb Bush? | 6/15/2006 | See Source »

...FENG, Shanghai and New York City-based fashion designer Lounge on an opium bed at Face Bar, a renovated 1930s-era villa in central Shanghai, where a favorite tipple is the Chinese Whisper?a Midori and Cointreau cocktail. Stroll past stores selling bolts of Chinese silk to Restaurant 1931 on Maoming Road, where the traditionally clad waitresses evoke the glamour of old Shanghai. The fried dumplings aren't bad, either. Then catch some music at the House of Blues and Jazz, owned by a local TV personality, before ending the night with a typical Shanghai treat: a relaxing massage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Night in ... Shanghai | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

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