Word: banquet
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Despite being pelted in the neck by an orange spewed from the mouth of a lion dancer, Brian T. Ru ’11 had only good things to say about Saturday evening’s Chinese New Year’s Banquet in Leverett Dining Hall...
...ideal. They want the marbles back, and the New Acropolis Museum is an ingenious part of their lengthy campaign to retrieve them. It will display the Greek portions of the Parthenon frieze side by side with pale plaster copies of the portions in London, like empty chairs at a banquet table. Meanwhile, the Greeks have also proposed that the British Museum might simply lend them the Elgin Marbles for the official opening of the museum later this year. There's just one problem. The British Museum insists that Greece must first recognize, formally, that the marbles are its property...
...that role when the time to vote finally arrives than that same Geffen-and-Soros cabal that donates millions in the months beforehand and afterward. If there’s one thing keeping the race for the White House from becoming one long black-tie fundraiser in a polished banquet hall, it’s these people. Better that some frustrated rustics scrape the barrel for Huckabee’s aw-shucks ticket and the remains of the McCain campaign than Republicans elsewhere resign themselves to the twin metropolitan miseries of Mssrs. Giuliani and Romney. I stop short of ascribing...
...there's one sea creature they like to munch more than most: the humble herring. They like it fried, fermented, pickled and baked. And they especially enjoy it at Leif Mannerström's harbor-side restaurant Sjömagasinet. Every Christmas, the Michelin-starred chef dishes up a banquet of 16 types of herring and serves 10,000 people over 22 days. So if you want to join in the festive fish feast, make sure to book a table early. 5 Adolf Edelsvärdsgata; www.sjomagasinet.se...
...grilling by MPs what he'd like for Christmas, Brown sighed: "I might have one day off.") He doesn't have to hold elections until 2010. But by then, he may be forced to fathom another observation from Robert Louis Stevenson: "Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences...