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Starr, who owns a dozen Philadelphia hotspots, insists that the activists had little to do with his decision to remove foie gras from all of his Philadelphia restaurants. "If they said, 'Can we meet with you?' I probably would have, but instead they use the bullhorn, these really creepy tactics. The bottom line is," he adds, "that it's probably not a good thing to do to the animals. But honestly to me it was a non-issue. It didn't sell that well, I don't like to eat it myself...
...dozen men and women came tumbling out of two large, metallic-white buses that pulled up beside the French Navy's headquarters on the Place de la Concorde in central Paris. First out onto the sidewalk was a white-haired gentleman with several folders tucked under his arm. He was followed by 11 slightly disoriented people whose appearance of confusion increased as they became surrounded by scores of onlookers appearing out of nowhere. A burly woman with a bright orange "police" armband then began barking "You can't stay here!" at the gawkers, while impressive-looking male colleagues formed...
...settled in front of Hidden Sweets, Buscaglia brings humor to his performance, both through his Latin-beat music and his commentary between songs.“Thank you! Thank you!” Buscaglia yells after completing a song, arms spread wide, accepting the applause of the two dozen people he has gathered. Then he gives a shout-out to NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.”“‘American Has Talent,’ I am here!” he declares to the applauding crowd...
...though Li was handling a number of politically sensitive cases, there was nothing unusual in his case load, nothing directly connected to the Party Congress. So when a dozen or so men surrounded him, pulled a bag over his head and dragged him into a car, Li's reaction was more surprise than anything else. That would soon change. The men took Li to a house in the suburbs, stripped him to his underpants and beat him and poked him with an electric cattle prod...
...time the executive editor of the Post Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a small-town newspaper with a circulation of 26,000. In 2005, the Post Register reported that Brad Stowell, a Boy Scouts leader, had molested not two boys, as had been previously reported in 1997, but two dozen. In a series of articles, the Register reported that the national organization of the Boy Scouts of America and a local chapter had hired two top Idaho law firms to seal court files related to the cases after settling with two of the victims. The Register also reported that...