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Entering Nouvelle Lune, an intimate and discreet restaurant tucked between a row of stores on Massachusetts Avenue, guests are greeted with an explosion of the senses that only serves to heighten the appetite. Inside the compact space, a frying pan hisses loudly from behind a wall, the soft aroma of rice lingers in the air, and the noise of the kitchen crowds the dining area to create a welcoming and homely ambience. The quaint dining area, with its simple, checkered table cloths and sparse table decoration, resembles a room in a doll house...
...short, pudgy and mustachioed Qusay quietly consolidated his authority in Iraq, all the while keeping his personal life largely out of the spotlight. He went to law school, married the daughter of a war hero and produced two children. He reputedly likes equestrian sports and keeps his peccadilloes discreet...
...Saddam's regime is driven by concerns ranging from sparing the lives of Americans and Iraqis; maintaining the support of allies, most of whom have lent their support in defiance of domestic public opinion; minimizing the backlash against those in the Arab world that have offered open or discreet support; and minimizing the socio-economic trauma of the war that would complicate efforts to stabilize a post-Saddam Iraq. The plan to drop as many bombs on Iraq in the first 48 hours of the war as were dropped in the entire 1991 Gulf War is designed to smash...
...alone to cure the long-term structural malaise," said Holger Schmieding, European economist at Bank of America in London. "If more buoyant global demand does not come to the rescue soon, Germany will remain in deep trouble." - By Charles P. Wallace/Berlin Reconstructive Criticism It was about as discreet as a Rumsfeld one-liner: the U.S. has requested bids for $900 million to rebuild Iraq, using only American companies - including Vice President Cheney's old firm Halliburton. That prompted British M.P. Vincent Cable, backed by rapturous cheers, to ask Prime Minister Tony Blair if he was "embarrassed" to support a President...
...make my gorge rise. Last week’s Salient offered up some choice bits for those of us who thrill to have our sensibilities so viscerally offended. For a conservative publication run by two members of what is “supposed to be the more prudent, discreet sex” (I quote its publisher, Mary C. Cardinale ’02-’03), it is absolutely obscene...