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Nip and tuck
Plastic surgery is now becoming more accepted in Malaysia. What do you need to look out for? By Dr ALICE PREMITHA MICHAEL FIFTY years ago, you had to do it in secret the subject was considered taboo. Eventually, the rich and the famous took the lead and elected cosmetic surgery as somewhat of a prerequisite to all the glory. Today, seated at a nook in Delicious, youll hear bits and pieces about whos had their latest rendezvous with their own not-so-hunky version of Dr Troy for a little nip and tuck. While there are no current figures released by our Health Ministry to depict how many cosmetic surgery fanatics are in your neighbourhood, the mushrooming of many institutions and centres that offer such services speak volumes. The trend has been building up a storm in recent years.
HOUND DOG BILL IS BACK - AND HE'S BARKING LOUD
Despite reports, it's probably easier to pen in press than it is to subdue and shut up the testosterone-fueled bad boy as he travels from state to state stumping and pressing the flesh (OK, bad choice of words) with the thousands of adoring fans who crowd him unrestrained after his speeches. But clearly Team Clinton was in damage-control mode during the week, trying to make up for his untoward, racially insensitive remarks. (The jury is still out about whether or not they were really off the cuff or not.) He was introduced at each of his last-minute-arranged, hectic venues by prominent African-Americans and Hispanics. There was former Mayor Wellington Webb in Denver, Mayor Martin Chavez in Albuquerque, and Queens Congressman Gregory Meeks in Phoenix and Albuquerque. It's clear that Hound Dog Bill wants to be in the White House again, even if that takes getting America to elect his wife.
Who is afraid of Disneyfication? A response to Sonja Hegasy
Ahdaf Soueif did not initially welcome the translation of her novel In the Eye of Sun from English to Arabic (the state-owned literary weekly Akhbar al-Adab did attempt a translation never easy in the case of an 800-page book). In a public lecture, Soueif declared that only she herself would be truly faithful to the text, but that she would rather write a new novel. This is understandable. If Soueif had been a victim of the parochialism of Egyptian intellectuals she would not have been invited to the Higher Council on Cultures conference on the Arab novel in 1998, at which she thanked the council Chairman Gaber al-Asfour for acknowledging her work as belonging to the Arab novel. Soueifs The Map of Love has been translated into Arabic, and her work Zinat al-Hayat has been published by al-Hayaa al-Amma lil kitab, the official government press.
Nip and tuck
Plastic surgery is now becoming more accepted in Malaysia. What do you need to look out for? By Dr ALICE PREMITHA MICHAEL FIFTY years ago, you had to do it in secret the subject was considered taboo. Eventually, the rich and the famous took the lead and elected cosmetic surgery as somewhat of a prerequisite to all the glory. Today, seated at a nook in Delicious, youll hear bits and pieces about whos had their latest rendezvous with their own not-so-hunky version of Dr Troy for a little nip and tuck. While there are no current figures released by our Health Ministry to depict how many cosmetic surgery fanatics are in your neighbourhood, the mushrooming of many institutions and centres that offer such services speak volumes. The trend has been building up a storm in recent years.
HOUND DOG BILL IS BACK - AND HE'S BARKING LOUD
Despite reports, it's probably easier to pen in press than it is to subdue and shut up the testosterone-fueled bad boy as he travels from state to state stumping and pressing the flesh (OK, bad choice of words) with the thousands of adoring fans who crowd him unrestrained after his speeches. But clearly Team Clinton was in damage-control mode during the week, trying to make up for his untoward, racially insensitive remarks. (The jury is still out about whether or not they were really off the cuff or not.) He was introduced at each of his last-minute-arranged, hectic venues by prominent African-Americans and Hispanics. There was former Mayor Wellington Webb in Denver, Mayor Martin Chavez in Albuquerque, and Queens Congressman Gregory Meeks in Phoenix and Albuquerque. It's clear that Hound Dog Bill wants to be in the White House again, even if that takes getting America to elect his wife.
Who is afraid of Disneyfication? A response to Sonja Hegasy
Ahdaf Soueif did not initially welcome the translation of her novel In the Eye of Sun from English to Arabic (the state-owned literary weekly Akhbar al-Adab did attempt a translation never easy in the case of an 800-page book). In a public lecture, Soueif declared that only she herself would be truly faithful to the text, but that she would rather write a new novel. This is understandable. If Soueif had been a victim of the parochialism of Egyptian intellectuals she would not have been invited to the Higher Council on Cultures conference on the Arab novel in 1998, at which she thanked the council Chairman Gaber al-Asfour for acknowledging her work as belonging to the Arab novel. Soueifs The Map of Love has been translated into Arabic, and her work Zinat al-Hayat has been published by al-Hayaa al-Amma lil kitab, the official government press.
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