By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO : ATLANTA
THE rapper Antwan Patton was sitting in the sleek black Courvoisier Lounge tucked into the back of his recording studio here. Mr. Patton, better known as Big Boi, one-half of the progressive hip-hop duo OutKast, was taking a break from finishing his debut solo album, due out this summer. But […]
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By CHARLES McGRATH : UNALASKA, Alaska
DUTCH HARBOR, a fishing port in this town on a pair of islands in the middle of the Aleutians, may be the bleakest, wildest frontier left in America. There used to be a bowling alley, but it closed. So, just recently, did the worst and most dangerous of the town’s […]
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By GUY TREBAY
IT used to be that good-looking waiters and cold plonk were the sole essentials of a good museum opening. Maybe there were some crackers on a tray. These days, though, no such fete is complete without a little curbside controversy, some wacko bit of theater, a harried staff of professional-event duennas and a […]
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By JENNIFER CONLIN
LYING under a thick patchwork quilt, breathing in the fresh mountain air, I felt like a true eco-traveler as I listened reverently to a morning medley of nature streaming through my window: the chirping of a cockatoo, the scuffle of a passing lizard, the rustling of leaves … and then, from the room […]
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By BROOK LARMER
ON A COLD JANUARY AFTERNOON, several hundred Chinese converged on a bookstore in a Beijing shopping center called the Creative Zone. As U2’s anthem “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” swelled in the background, their eyes were drawn to a video montage of a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard projected […]
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By CELIA W. DUGGER
JOHANNESBURG — The Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday insisted that he had won the presidential election outright and that no runoff vote would be needed. He also warned that the governing party was readying a campaign of violence against his supporters to hang on to power.
Mr. Tsvangirai (pronounced CHANG-guh-rye) promised […]
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