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...Stalin. When Salon.com revealed last week that dozens of legislators attended a bizarre event staged by eccentric businessman and wealthy campaign contributor THE REV. SUN MYUNG MOON in the Dirksen Senate Office Building last March, red-faced pols said they had been duped by invitations to a "peace-awards banquet." "This went far beyond anything that I expected," said Representative Danny Davis of Illinois, who carried a crown for Moon's wife. A spokesman for Moon said all members of Congress got invitations stating that the Unification Church leader would be honored. They must have missed the fine print about...
Beijing: Fang Shan Restaurant Opened in 1925 by chefs who used to work in the Imperial household, this legendary restaurant doesn't do things by halves. Its Man Han Banquet features 134 hot dishes and 48 cold ones, plus a vast array of desserts, for $180 a head. You'll have to allow several days to work through it all, of course...
...Washington: Laboratorio del Galileo Given that it has only eight tables, guests book weeks in advance for the sprawling 10- to 12-course Italian banquet at this intimate offshoot of chef Roberto Donna's celebrated Galileo Restaurant. The menu constantly changes, depending on the produce available, but the evening always begins with a glass of prosecco and ends with bomboloni (a simple, donutlike pastry, hot from the oven). Prices start from $110 per person. Five or six wines, carefully paired with the evening's menu, cost an additional...
...faculty members and a teaching fellow received the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize in recognition of excellence in teaching at an award banquet last Friday...
...pretty shocked. My students asked for my address [to complete the nomination form] and I thought they were going to send me a prank through the mail,” Chang said. “I never got anything in the mail—all I got was a banquet invitation...