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...want to widen your dance repertoire beyond salsa and tango, there's always hula. Long before Captain James Cook arrived on the island of Kauai in 1778, Hawaiians were performing the hypnotic dance. Though its origins are steeped in legend, the hula is thought to have been brought to Hawaii by Polynesian immigrants more than 1,500 years ago. The stylized hand and foot gestures are meant to mirror natural phenomena like swaying palms and waterfalls, and are always accompanied by rhythmic chants. Grass skirts, leis and decorative ferns, nuts and shells, are intended to symbolize the integration of nature...
...Camilla, he looks like an assured and happy middle-aged man, which is exactly what he should be. How nice that once in a while a man actually chooses a woman his own age instead of a fetching, young knockout! Karin Judkins Turin, Italy I do hope that the island kingdom of Britain will maintain its royals forever. After all, stories of kings and queens have fired the imagination of generations of young children whose loving parents call them princes and princesses. What will happen to the bedtime fairy tales that send them to sleep and generate sweet dreams? With...
...case. The ruling overturned a lower court's acquittal of five of the defendants a week earlier. The victim said a tribal council ordered her ordeal as a punishment. Poison Probe THE PHILIPPINES Authorities launched an investigation into the deaths of at least 27 elementary schoolchildren in the southern island of Bohol who were apparently poisoned by cassava sweets bought from street vendors. Health officials said the inquiry would focus on the possibility that the children were poisoned either by cyanide, which is naturally present in cassava, or pesticides. Presidential Reprieve BOLIVIA Congress rallied behind besieged President Carlos Mesa, rejecting...
...lithograph on the left, the first illustration in the book, is a somewhat innocuous, though certainly abstracted and solidly-colored painting in which a woman appears to be sleeping on an island in the middle of a river. The opposing lithograph, however, from the end of the children’s book, when the narrative has entirely descended into an unsettling stream-of-consciousness, eerily depicts an androgynous but clearly co-ed pair of scrawny, nude adolescents standing in what resembles dream-like Garden of Eden...
...second album, The Massacre, earlier this month, to generally favorable reviews. While not everyone has had a chance to hear his new album, his gangster antics have added to its publicity. So…is “Fitty” (as my little brother and his Long Island high-schooler friends call him) a talented entertainer or an obnoxious braggart...