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The bar employs 20 "models," well-built men in their 20s and 30s, who are available to be hit. Customers can specify how they want the models to appear (they can even dress as women) and then they are free to give them a sound beating.

Mo Rocca's blog challenge to make sense of Miss South Carolina's answer to a geography question

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One day Anders invited us to tag along while he applied for a visa at the Soviet Embassy. There wasn’t much entertainment in those days, and Erica and I were curious to see the mission, reputedly the biggest in Beijing ( Read more... )

On December 11, Kim Il-sung's Selected Works suddenly appeared on the shelves of our reading room. The next day, several black Mercedes-Benz limousines disgorged nine neatly dressed North Koreans. There were two women and seven men, all in their early twenties.Three were going to study Chinese, three English and three French. I pitied them. It was ( Read more... )

By the time I arrived at Beijing University in August 1972, the worst factional fighting of the Cultural Revolution was over. For the moment, the most radical faction, New Beijing University Commune, dominated the school, and two of its most stalwart members, Fu Min and Dai Guifu, became our teachers. Back in 1966, Beijing University had become a ( Read more... )

Over the years, Beijing University produced a disproportionate share of China's troublemakers. In 1919, its students led the May 4th Movement, demonstrating at Tiananmen Square for democracy. In 1966, Red Guards in Beijing University took the lead in denouncing Deng Xiaoping as a "capitalist roader." They incarcerated his eldest son, a Beijing ( Read more... )

on tenderhooks

parting shot

And here, a partial list and explanation of eggcorns

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Although jokes about suicide bombers being rewarded with virgins after death were worn thin by Jay Leno a few years back, they gain piquancy when one learns that some scholars now believe that the Koran's reference to seventy-two virgins may be a mistranslation of seventy-two raisins.--Art Spiegelman, "Drawing Blood: Outrageous Cartoons and the Art ( Read more... )