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...tell an Italian that you're heading to this or that city in Italy, the response is almost always the same: Oooh! Lì si mangia bene (rough translation: the eating's good there). Italians are famously proud of their own neighborhood cuisine, but they're as eager to taste what's cooking down the road. And if you force an Italian to choose just one city where the local cuisine is better than the rest, the winner - always after careful thought - more often than not turns out to be Bologna. The traditional Bolognese menu of egg-based pasta, thick...
...Department of Defense should pursue its advantage. Of the many conditions in the Solomon Amendment for which federal funding can be withheld, one in particular catches the eye: No funds may be provided to an institution of higher education that, in the judgment of the Secretary of Defense (nota bene), “either prohibits, or in effect prevents, the Secretary of a military department from maintaining, establishing, or operating a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps…at that institution...
...more than about seven minutes of my parents. This may be because they rarely mentioned spanking, which, according to Dr. Spock, was actually a good thing. I was so enthralled with Howard, I even went with my father to see him perform at a New Jersey nightclub called Club Bene. With parenting like that, you can understand why I turned to the Sterns as role models...
...Joanis breaks into the second verse of BenE. King's "Stand By Me," a cluster of middleschool girls stroll by. Suddenly, as if they'veheard their anthem, the girls let out a collectiveshriek, gathering around the singer and joininghim in the final refrain. As he strums the lastchord, the girls thank him profusely. Joanis smilewidens and he launches into his next song...
...best stories in this book involve culture shock. Sometimes the shock is Merrill's, as when Dr. Detre explains that an Italian's repeated "Ti voglio bene" had meant not "I wish you well" (as it would in a textbook) but "I love you." At other times the culture shock is ours. Merrill inhabited, when he chose, both the inaccessible world of the super-rich (James Merrill's much-married father, Charles Merrill, helped found Merrill Lynch) and the world of young, well-educated gay men long before either Stonewall or AIDS. When Charles first suspected that James...