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...looking for a monument, an art museum or the best route to the airport, you are out of luck with the eat.shop guides. But if you absolutely must find the best cowboy boots in Austin, Texas, a bait-and-tackle shop with high-design sensibilities in Providence, R.I., a Persian ice cream parlor in Hollywood or Japanese tapas in Brooklyn, N.Y., these compact urban guides may be for you. Each volume focuses on 90 locally owned shops or restaurants in cities from Portland, Ore., to Paris...
...whole film reeks ever so slightly of this sort of bait and switch; the viewer, ignorant of how many Americans Borat interviewed before finding his tidbits of intolerance, is meant by implication to accept that his mockumentary is some sort of representative sample...
...death from heart disease and a 17% reduction in total mortality. Only two servings of fish a week are requisite to garner these benefits. Though this study may give relief to some, Harvard students don’t seem to have bitten the media’s fish-denouncing bait. “Student demand for seafood, especially fish, has really climbed over the last year,” said Crista Martin, assistant director of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). HUDS has served 130,000 pounds of seafood in the past year and offers fish 19 times a month...
...find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Straw's every word. Feminists have denounced Straw's approach as unacceptably proscriptive, and reactionary Muslims say it is Islamaphobic. But it is time to speak out against this objectionable garment and face down the obscurantists who endlessly bait and intimidate the state by making demands that violate its fundamental principles. That they have brainwashed young women, born free, to seek self-subjugation breaks my heart. Trained creatures often choose to stay in their cages even when released. I don't call that a choice. I would not propose that Muslim...
...Padovese blamed the outcry on voices in the Turkish press whom he described as "nationalist, Islamist and anti-Christian," and said the Pope's intention was not to offend anyone. "I don't know if anyone even read the Pope's discourse," Padovese said. "These elements tossed out the bait, and others took...