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...Peacocks Tearoom, Ely Situated about 30 km from Cambridge in the town of Ely, Peacocks, peacockstearoom.co.uk, was voted Top Tea Place in 2007 by the U.K. Tea Council - and that's no mean accolade when your competitors are the Dorchester and Savoy. The august body praised Peacocks' warm atmosphere, amazing range of teas and delicious sandwiches. There's also the lovely riverside setting and wisteria-strewn gardens, both enticing draws on a sunny day. The tea count runs to almost 60 varieties, and as you'd imagine there are no tea bags allowed...
...which was broadcast on the German public television channel ARD on Monday night, Kampusch allowed cameras into the cellar where she had been locked up in the Vienna suburbs for the first time and revealed new harrowing details of her brutal captivity, which ended with her lucky escape in August 2006. "I have a stamp on my forehead which says victim of violence," Kampusch tells the TV crew who filmed the house that she now owns. "I will be ostracized for the rest of my life." (See pictures of the Fritzl house of horrors in Austria...
...Democrats carry the stigma of being tied to Granholm, who in two terms has struggled to guide Michigan through economic and financial crises driven mainly by the state's dependence on the ailing auto industry. Several Republicans have emerged as hopefuls for the the primary to be held in August, including Mike Cox, Michigan's attorney general, and Mike Bouchard, a former state senator and the current sheriff of Oakland County, the center of Michigan's wealth. So far, however, none has generated much excitement...
...Back in August, Graduate School of Education students Jill A. Carlson and Eleanor B. O’Donnell asked their classmate Debra L. Gittler to help them organize a project of international scope—but none of them had a clear idea of what exactly they wanted...
...That such a message would resonate here was poignant, given that no one had fought harder and longer than Kennedy for universal health care, something that the terminally ill liberal lion had referred to before his death in August as "the cause of my life." And it was all the more ironic considering that Massachusetts has come closer than any other state to assuring coverage to all of its citizens, thanks to a 2006 law that was championed by a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, who was celebrating onstage with Brown on election night...