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...TIME: You've criticized the global response to Darfur. How do you explain the inaction? Tutu: In the past there was a kind of indifference. The response has tended not to be as quick when things happen in Africa as, say, Bosnia. When your complexion is swarthy, you tend to be at the bottom of the queue. But let's congratulate them this time. Kofi Annan and the Security Council acted far more quickly than they did with Rwanda...
...like chocolate milk shakes?" Sitting on the toilet in my room, I thought I was hearing voices. "Strawberry?" I looked up and saw a middle-aged man with brown hair and pasty complexion sticking his head into a partially open doorway. He introduced himself as Jim Mayer, better known as the "Milk Shake...
After members of Jamie's celebrity-endorsements team reviewed my photos, they thought there might be hope for me because, as Jamie put it, "you have a clear complexion and shiny, dark hair." I wasn't sure if she was going to score a deal for me from Mennen or send me into the third race at Santa Anita. I was learning that being a spokesman means being treated like a piece of meat. And that I liked...
...Since when was the guillotine considered funny? For a while in the 19th century, it seems. “It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented the hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close,” writes Charles Dickens in his 1859 novel, “A Tale of Two Cities.” Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 and Jess R. Burkle ’06 are laughing right along with Dickens. Together...
...Mona Lisa's smile at the Muse du Louvre in Paris, where location filming was allowed only after closing hours. Ongoing complaints by the Vatican and Opus Dei have only stoked the publicity fires, while a (much) smaller group supporting albino rights blanched at the villain's complexion. Sony has held no screenings for movie critics yet, which is not usually a good sign. But controversy sells, so maybe it won't need signs. -By Jeffrey Ressner...