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...deep-fried sole with tempura vegetables in sweet-and-sour ginger sauce, or have oysters and champagne as a pre-theater snack. Afterward, a ballet at La Scala, tel: (39-02) 7200 3744, is a magical experience. Then I'd walk around Piazza Castello beneath the medieval fortress, Castello Sforzesco. With the fountain sparkling under the illuminated ramparts, it's the perfect end to the evening. (See 10 things to do in Rome...
...belief in meaningful arguments and substance. He has refused, so far, to pander to the kind of agitprop that the Bush campaign ran in 2004 to defeat Kerry. McCain, though, seems determined to deploy the slime. Is America really going to let itself be swift-boated again? Leslie Castello, Jacksonville...
...rather accepting there is another point of view and sometimes adapting it. Maybe, just maybe, Obama is simply a reasonable guy able to change his opinions when the right rationale and information appeal to him. Isn't that a trait we should be looking for in our President? Leslie Castello, JACKSONVILLE...
...accepting that there is another point of view and sometimes adapting it. Maybe, just maybe, Obama is just a reasonable guy able to change his opinions when the right rationale and information appeal to him. Isn't that a trait we should be looking for in our President? Leslie Castello, Jacksonville, Florida...
...Islamic empires were deep and their influence enduring. The city's world-renowned Murano glass industry employed techniques learned from Anatolian workshops, while Venetian bookbinders and cartographers imitated their Arabic counterparts. One of the exhibit's showcase pieces - a hallowed marble throne from the Church of San Pietro di Castello in Venice - features a backrest that is actually a tombstone brought from Syria, still inscribed with Koranic scripture. The throne "tells a story," says curator Stefano Carboni, "of cultures in tune with each other, of mutual understandings." Venice declined as other European navigators explored and came to dominate...