December 21, 2009
Traditionally, a holiday meal in France features roast lamb, or some sort of poultry (chicken, turkey, goose or duck, or sometimes pintade (guinea fowl, in English), quail or pheasant, for the more adventuresome, or maybe even a capon, a castrated cockerel that is prized for its tenderness). Vegetarians, rare as they might be here, or [...]
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December 16, 2009
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will need up to several weeks rest following his attack while giving a speech on the evening of December 13 in front of Milan’s Duomo, the city’s massive Gothic cathedral. A 42-year-old man with a history of mental illness hurled a softball-sized souvenir statue of the cathedral at Berlusconi’s face, [...]
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