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...Scots. They have their kilts and their bagpipes and their knotted, lyrical accents that make them sound as if they're perpetually chewing something. And best of all, they still get excited about an 18th century poet. Every year on Jan. 25, people gather at dinner parties all across Scotland to celebrate the life and works of their country's most famous poet, Robert Burns - and they do so by singing to the food. (See pictures of the world's wackiest holidays...
...rapid spread on the Internet shows how difficult it can be to control freelance online investigations of officials, even by the very officials tasked with controlling the Internet. The post's author claimed to be a reporter from the state-run Xinhua News Service whose daughter twice went to dinner with Chen, the deputy director in the Beijing Internet Propaganda Management office. Xiao Qiang, head of the Berkeley China Internet Project, said that within hours of the anonymous story's posting, it had migrated to thousands of other sites despite efforts by official censors to block its spread. Xiao calls...
...Dinner for two, with a couple of glasses of wine each, comes to about $370 - pricey, but with the restaurant occupying Miele's top spot, there's no shortage of people willing to pay it. For reservations, call...
...media remain reluctant "to set aside childish things." Happily, though, our new President seems to have an honest predilection for treating his opponents with respect. He seems intent on hearing their points of view and arguing, decorously, with them - that's why he accepted a dinner invitation at conservative columnist George Will's house. This is radical behavior in the village on the Potomac. It could force everyone to argue more carefully, to think twice before casting aspersions, to remember that the goal has to be more than temporal electoral victories - but, in this moment of peril, a better...
King Abdullah's residence in Kuwait City for some Saudi hospitality. But it will take more than meze and grilled lamb to heal the gaping divisions in the Arab world. "If these breaches are so easy to solve by having lunch, then they should be having breakfast, lunch and dinner," said Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Center of Lebanon at the American University of Beirut. As Palestinian survivors of the three-week military onslaught in Gaza scooped out the dead from the rubble, Khouri says the Arab world's squabbling rulers have never looked more "collectively mediocre...