Word: dienes
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...recent animosity is the sudden bust that has followed the coffee boom, hurting almost everyone in the area. In the past year, world coffee prices have plummeted. Farmers who in 1999 could get $1.40 per kilo now earn only 40 cents. That doesn't cover production costs. Y Dien, born into the Ede tribe 40 years ago, lives in Ea Brieng, a dusty Dak Lak village. In the hope of finding a better future, he followed government orders to abandon communal living 10 years ago and began growing coffee. Within a few years he was able to buy a television...
...impressed with me. They felt very comfortable talking to me and very comfortable relating to me. And felt very at ease talking about things. And I'm saying to myself "Ya see, America needs a diplomat like me, someone the people can feel and understand that can get with Dien Bien Phu and with these old men out there...
...Beverly Hills time capsule circa 1985. Richard Williams (Perry King), the aging lion of conglomerate Williams Global Enterprises, is taking a hot new wife (Baywatch's Yasmine Bleeth) who has designs on his dough--and a secret romantic history with his son (a constipated-seeming Casper Van Dien), a hotshot pilot newly returned from the Navy. Family chaos, and frequent barings of skin, ensues...
...Brom Bones, one of the primary characters in the book, becomes just one of the horseman's many victims in the film. Played by Casper Van Dien, who starred in Starship Troopers, Burton's Brom fades into the background of the other townspeople except in a great fight sequence where he and Ichabod team up against the horseman...
...Several big name actors play the many new supporting roles in the story. The town is filled with recognizable faces, even if they are paler and chubbier than usual. Brom Bones is played by Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers). Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, is the town Reverend; Michael Gambon, the famous British theater actor, is Baltus Van Tassel...