 |  | | How to Handle N Korea? |
| THEdeath of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, and the ascendance to power of one of his sons, Kim Jong-un, creates some opportunities and potential traps for the administration and senior leaders in the United States.... |
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| |  | | A NEW KIM... A NEW CHANCE |
| ON my first trip to North Korea in 1989, I made a nuisance of myself by randomly barging into private homes. I wanted to see how ordinary North Koreans actually live, and people were startled but hospitable.... |
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 | Top 10 theatre acts of 2011 AS 2011 dawned, a new crackerjack Jon Robin Baitz play was opening off-Broadway and a rowdy Spider-Man was getting bad press on Broadway. A year later, that crackerjack Baitz play is now on Broadway and ...
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| | Holiday cookie treats | | THESE delicious mouthfuls are fun to bake and make for fabulous holiday treats.
CHOCOLATE-PEPPERMINT THUMBPRINTS (Makes 4 dozen) ACTIVE TIME: 35 minutes.
TOTAL TIME: 50 minutes + cooling.
For extra sparkle, roll the dough balls in sanding sugar instead of granulated before baking.
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and levelled) 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/4 teaspoon fine salt 1 1/4 cups (2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 large egg 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract 5 ounces semisweet chocolate chips (3/4 cup) 1/2 teaspoon pure peppermint extract Method: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, with racks in upper and lower thirds. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder and salt. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat 1 cup each butter and sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla; beat to combine.
With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture and beat to combine.
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| | Excusez-moi, parlez-vous yoga? | | WHEN I moved to Paris from New York last year, about the first thing I did was seek out yoga. The city, job, language, food, telephone numbers, currency, even the way the milk was labelled: every element of my life from the most major to the tiniest details, had changed. Sure, it was thrilling, but it was also exhausting and humbling. At least on a yoga mat, I thought, I could feel at home.
But where to practice? New York City is Yoga Central, rivalled in its fervour perhaps only by Los Angeles. Manhattan yoga studios must outnumber Starbucks these days, and practically every third person on the sidewalk is toting a mat. You c a n find classes in many styles and levels at just about any hour of the day, in studios, gyms, offices, schools and, in nice weather, in the parks.
The 5,000- year-old practice, like sitar music and batik bedspreads, first arrived in a big way in the United States and in France in a populist wave from India in the 1960s, but the current American yoga boom is sweeping the country in all age groups, from the prenatal to the elderly... |
| | Rooney Mara ready for stardom with Dragon Tattoo | | DAVID Fincher, the Oscar nominated director of The Social Network, had cast Rooney Mara as the girlfriend of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg in Social Network.
After a small role in the film, the director saw that Mara had a lot of potential and decided to give her a break with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Dragon Tattoo is based on Swedish author Stieg Larsson's first novel in his mega-popular Millennium Trilogy series, and Fincher's film follows a Swedish movie version of the book.
To some, it may seem that Mara had a Hollywood "in" to play the troubled Salander, who helps a disgraced investigative journalist (Daniel Craig) solve a case.
However, the 26-year old actress told Reuters it was quite the opposite.
"I think he was happy with the work I did in Social Network" of Salander, she said.
Her role in Social Network was that of a polished college girl, and she hadn't tackled any major starring roles in the movies.... |
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