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...singles, Tachibana took down Florence De Vrye, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 2. In the No. 3 slot, Norton won, 6-3, 6-4, and at No. 4, Rosekrans earned a 7-5, 6-1 victory. For the fourth singles win, Chang took down Sophie Stevens, 6-3, 6-4, in the No. 5 spot...
...gimmick is that Beth, having seen Nick with another woman at the wedding reception, gets squiffed and wanders outside to a Fontana de Amore, where local legend instructs visitors to wish for love by throwing a coin in the water. Graybeards will recall Rome's Fountain of Trevi as the romantic trigger for the plot of the 1954 Three Coins in the Fountain; Hilary Duff honored the tradition in The Lizzie McGuire Movie back in 2003. When in Rome invents a corollary legend: that if you remove a coin from the fountain, the person who put it there will instantly...
...most slavishly faithful to the principles of Vera Pizza Napoletana, the final word in pizza purity. But even in less food-obsessed American cities, various brick-oven restaurants compete for the approval of a fickle, pizza-geek public that looks closely at everything from the sourcing of the fior de latte to the presence of "tip sag" issues with the crust. A recent post at Slice, the king of pizza blogs, states, "The crust at Patsy's is so thin that light passes through it. It is soft, the cornicione has an airy inner core. But it was not blistered...
...Recover from what? "Sarkozy," says a former political adviser to conservative politicians who asks to remain anonymous. Now "de Villepin will be gunning for" the president "with his honor restored and with his hatred magnified by 10. From here out, de Villepin will attack every move Sarkozy makes and position himself as a rival candidate in 2012 to defeat Sarkozy for the presidency - or at least guarantee he thwarts his re-election by dividing the right." (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...other words, the legal bout of the de Villepin-Sarkozy slug-fest may be over, but the lack of a knock-out for either combatant means both will take their fight back to the cage-match brawling of politics...