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UNINVITED GUESTS Gate-crashing a wedding is not usually the best way for travelers to endear themselves to the locals, but in Coorg, you don't need to be on the guest list to attend. "Gate-crashing? No!" says Pachi Chengappa, who prepares splendid meals for tourists at her estate. "Coorgs love to entertain outsiders." Turn up at the door of the wedding hall, and you will be invited in for the drinking and dancing. The local Kodava people are a distinct ethnic group in southern India, and though descended from a warrior clan, they are anything but hostile...
...hardihood, perseverence and merit")...and Agriculture and Industry ("The farmer is the best support of government"). But when the revelers got to the captains in the 18th and final toast, they seemed to be at a loss for words. Finally they settled for saluting "their perilous services [that] endear them to every American heart...
...unspoilable bread substance the corps took with them. It's whole wheat flour, salt, water and a drop of butter, baked very crisp. And it's delicious, like a health-food-store wheat cracker. It would go great with goat cheese or pate. This last comment doesn't endear me to my new friends...
...dignified subject. Whether momentarily seated at a table—ready to spring up and mill about—or formally seated for a traditional profile painting, Toulouse Lautrec’s barmaid subject sports a capricious smirk. Again, the artist transcends different settings and poses to humanize and endear to us a confident and dynamic subject...
...would be glamorous to be...sitting on the beach in Miami with a long cigarette, drinking martinis." She first got drunk at 13, when a girlfriend urged her to drink wine coolers. Indeed, research has shown that girls often begin drinking not to impress boys but to endear themselves to other girls. In a study published last year of more than 1,000 Maryland sixth-graders, girls were twice as likely as boys to succumb to peer pressure to drink. The reason? While boys at that age bob among social groups, girls have already cleaved into powerful cliques. "Girls...