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...turn, stuck to his bland and uninspired script. "Married for 34 years?.I'm not a perfect man?I never asked anyone to lie?." He followed the Lenny Bruce dictum so often embraced by politicians and raised to an art form by Bill Clinton: deny, deny, deny...
...liked big butts, and he could not lie. AFROMAN likes marijuana, and he's not lying either. Afroman's tribute to pot, Because I Got High, from the soon-to-be-released album The Good Times, is the most requested track at countless radio stations around the country. Afroman--actually Joseph Foreman, 27--admits to smoking illegal substances occasionally. "But you know," he says, "my character, Afroman, he really does." Of course, it's a novelty hit and performance art. Afroman had no idea his ode would be so successful, and he displays an endearing concern for parental sensitivities...
What was once the center of the world now seems to lie on the remotest margins. It's hard to believe that this torpid, sand-colored town, with its bored Indian shopkeepers sitting outside foodstuff-and-luxuries stalls and camels grazing outside the (largely empty) Hilton Hotel, was once the Dhofar that Zheng He's ships (though not, it seems, the admiral himself) sought out, in 1432 on their seventh voyage. The Salalah Holiday Inn slumbers near the spot where old Chinese coins were once discovered. The classified section of the Oman Daily Observer reports that someone named Zou Shichui...
...Behind him, five first-year students are hunched over their benches with magnifying monocles screwed into their eyes. Antique clocks and watches in varying states of disassembly lie about, their components carefully stored in multirecessed trays. "The idea here is restoring a clock or watch to its original state," Lindwerlin explains, "which means they're tackling the problem of missing components." His students are trained to research where a timepiece was made and what sort of tools were used there at that time. They use computer-assisted design programs to reconceptualize missing parts and a separate workshop with lathes...
...success of Macedonia's insurgency may lie partly in the fact that when Albanian nationalists in Kosovo first sent a guerrilla army into the impoverished former Yugoslav republic, they found a huge pool of young Albanian men willing to join up. They were driven by a long-held sense of political and cultural grievance against the Macedonian authorities. But for many, the decision may have been made easier by the mass unemployment that left little hope of finding a job. Guerrillas always imagine themselves in heroic terms, and they have a sense of purpose that beats sitting around waiting...