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...PROVERB: GREAT-LOOKING MINDS THINK ALIKE...
...When you’re starved, a potato has no peel,” says a Creole proverb. In keeping with the abundance of the island’s produce, servings are hardly scarce. At Nouvelle Lune, Mondesir serves meals that are twice blessed with surprising blends and generous portions...
...more important than sports? To most yes, to others no. The important thing is to maintain the routine and the familiar. Everyone—our soldiers included—do not want the world to stop even if they are in action. The old proverb “baseball, mom and apple pie” still applies. Sports are integral to the American spirit—we root for the underdog just as we crave the “rags to riches” life. We love the camaraderie of being a part of something larger than ourselves, of cheering...
...their desolation with such intensity that they seem to have trained on maotai liquor instead of boiled noodles. There is no sign of Okafor. If his name was floated merely to warn the Americans?"killing the chicken to scare the monkey," in the words of a Chinese proverb?the ploy has worked, at least for one night...
...Instead of worrying about whether Hu is going to rule or Jiang is going to rule," says a former editorial writer for the official People's Daily, "China's leaders should be trying to figure out how to control the abuses of all these local leaders." The ancient Chinese proverb: "The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away" is increasingly sounding like a curse...