Word: dinners
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...want to cause a scene and I was struggling to accept a greater and more disquieting truth: If the vendor had put the calendar in front, it was probably a popular item. People are buying these souvenirs and putting them in their kitchens. They might be marking birthdays, dinner parties, or play-dates under Il Duce’s watchful...
...June 17, one of the women, Patrizia D'Addario, told the Milan daily Corriere della Sera that she was paid several thousand euros to attend two dinner parties at Berlusconi's Rome residence last fall and that she stayed the night of Nov. 4. She says she secretly made audio recordings during the parties, which she turned over to prosecutors. Two days later, a friend of D'Addario's, Barbara Montereale, told newspaper La Repubblica that she, too, was paid to attend the Nov. 4 party, but left after dinner. Montereale described her friend as a professional escort...
...said that your dad forbade your family to talk about money at the dinner table. Are people allowed to talk about money at your dinner table? Jay Siena, TOKYO...
...tight leash to minimize his wonderfully outrageous and innocent gaffes. (Arguello, in discussing his 14 years spent living in the U.S., remembered Thanksgiving as a commemoration of the day when the British declared a one-day truce during their invasion of New Orleans to sit down for a turkey dinner...
...chagrin of Afghans, who see drinking tea as an inalienable human right, he scrapped a morning tea break at a recent security briefing in Kandahar, and aides grumble, nicely, that he sees others' demands for lunch as a sign of weakness. (But he makes up for it at dinner: a colleague says a typical evening repast may include a cheeseburger, a fajita burrito, a pile of fries and ice cream. And maybe a brownie.) And if it weren't for uniforms and the help of his wife, he wouldn't have a clue what to wear. His tenor voice...