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...interesting as I started getting notes on this script from people in Hollywood that some told me not to make it a period piece because kids will think it's about a different generation, and then some were asking me: Well, why doesn't James just go to New York and get a job at The New Yorker? Why is he such a loser at an amusement park? And I was sort of like: I'm pretty sure you came from money. You can't just go to New York with nothing in your pocket - even...
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...That's why Panthera, whose conservation efforts focus exclusively on endangered cats like jaguars and tigers, will be launching an innovative program in the Brazilian Pantanal this summer. The program will be carried out jointly with New York City's Mt. Sinai Medical School, and will involve a unique exchange of services that includes conservation, health care and disease research. Mt. Sinai's medical students and researchers will come to Panthera's 270-sq.-mi. (700-sq.-km) Pantanal ranch (which includes a jaguar habitat), where they will give free medical care to locals. That care, along with a free...
...Japanese and the Scandinavians are both given to clean, uncluttered interiors, and can do wonderful things with fish. No surprise, then, that the Tokyo branch of Aquavit - the first Asian venture from 39-year-old chef Marcus Samuelsson, creator of the Aquavit restaurants in New York City and Stockholm - is packing them in. Tucked away in the bustling Kita-Aoyama neighborhood, the light-filled Aquavit greets diners with a warm and tactile mix of high-backed booths of sage-green velvet and traditional tables of crisp white linens. Furnishings and fittings, by Swedish designer Bruno Mathsson and Danes Arne Jacobsen...
...Those in Pakistan's security establishment who maintain ties with the Taliban may, as Musharraf did in 2001, see Pakistan serving as a useful interlocutor with a movement that remains central to Afghanistan's fate. When the New York Times reported last week on the ongoing links between the ISI and the Taliban, it also reported that the British government "has sent several dispatches to Islamabad in recent months asking that the ISI use its strategy meetings with the Taliban to persuade its commanders to scale back violence in Afghanistan before the August presidential election there...