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...with the iconic working woman of their time, as Mary Tyler Moore's Mary Richards had been a generation before. (And, unquestionably, the show gave its fans a smart laugh or two.) So naturally they're primed for the SATC movie, which was written and directed by Michael Patrick King, an executive producer of the show. For them, it's what Grand Theft Auto IV is to their sons, and a Hannah Montana concert to their daughters - a gotta-have cultural event...
...Sunny Tours' catch-it-while-you-can marketing wouldn't have been very effective. In the early 20th century, Kep-sur-Mer was established as a getaway for French civil servants running the colony, and it served as an enclave for rich Khmer after independence in 1953. (The former King, Norodom Sihanouk, built a royal residence there that, like most of the old estates in town, now stands empty.) The holidays ended in the 1970s after an American bombing campaign brought the first wave of more than two decades of war, including the Khmer Rouge-led genocide that killed nearly...
...last year, the store has brought authors like Stephen King, Madeleine Albright, and Tom Brokaw to Harvard Square for talks and book-signings...
...girls they call by their initials, M.W. and T.W.; they intended only to provide foster care until the sisters' schizophrenic mother or another relative assumed responsibility. But that was five years ago, before the Coxes purchased a swing set, stocked their home in suburban Delafield, Wisconsin, with The Lion King, Pinocchio and Aladdin videos, and learned to distinguish M.W.'s tastes (macaroni and cheese) from T.W.'s (jelly sandwiches, hold the peanut butter). It was also before the Milwaukee County Human Services Department asked the Coxes to adopt the girls, now 5 and 6, and the couple readily agreed...
...Reviewers are praising the play for its artistic and historical sweep; allusions range from Shakespeare's King Lear to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, and the troubled history of the Czech republic. An English version is scheduled to open in London in September...