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...Michael Chow, proprietor of Mr. Chow's Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, the key questions facing the jury were purely factual ones. Was Guide Gault-Millau correct in asserting that the pancakes served with his Peking duck were "the size of a saucer and the thickness of a finger"? Was it true that his "sweet-and-sour pork contained more dough (badly cooked) than meat," as the pugnacious Parisian guide to New York City proclaimed? To prove otherwise, Chow brought his chef into Manhattan federal district court to demonstrate to the jury his technique for making paper-thin pancakes...
...mouth-watering evidence was persuasive. The jurors decided that Chow, who also owns restaurants in London and Beverly Hills, had been libeled by the Gault-Millau review and awarded him $20,000 in compensatory damages along with a $5 tip for punitive damages. The Shanghai-born restaurateur feels that justice was done. Said he: "Freedom of the press is designed to protect the right to tell the truth, not to print lies...
...significance of Chow's victory, however, could be far heavier than his pancakes. At stake in the case, say libel experts, is the right of critics to express their own judgments. Reviews, which are by nature subjective opinions, have generally been exempt from the standards of libel applied to news stories. But the distinction in libel cases between reporting and criticism is now being called into question...
...meaningful dining experience, a trip to Boston is definitely in order The local array of French, Japanese, seafood, and places you might conceivably want to take your parents leaves much to be desired--a fact you'll learn yourself all too soon. Here's a rundown of places to chow down in Cambridge...
...their contents. When Lebanese President Amin Gemayel ordered his army's 8th Brigade into East Beirut in February to take over security functions from the Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-led coalition of Christian militias, the troops managed the 2½-mile deployment without a hitch. But their chow did not arrive until 18 hours later. Says a senior U.S. official: "The Lebanese army is like a block of Swiss cheese. A lot of it is solid, but you run into holes in surprising places...