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...goose of French nobles and left their former chefs with few options but to open restaurants, travelers have come to the republic to learn to eat. Trouble is, the cost of tuition has been skyrocketing. In 1926, American gourmet A.J. Liebling got his education for 6 francs a feast. Today, anyone in a restaurant with three Michelin stars can expect to gain several kilos and drop several hundred euros. And prices are rising like one of L'Arpège's avocado pistachio soufflés. In 2001, the set menu there cost 1,200 francs...
...Sofia’s mother, while Richardson’s aunt Vanessa plays the mother of Sofia’s dead husband. The two hypocritical society women frown upon Sofia’s prostitution, yet complain little when she brings home the money. This Redgrave Reunion is an acting feast, and I’m not going to lie that I was disappointed Joely Richardson didn’t take time off from “Nip/Tuck’s” third season for a small cameo. The ending is perhaps anti-climactic, but one should never expect...
Shutting down limbo also aligns nicely with the church's activism on abortion. On last week's Feast of the Holy Innocents--honoring children murdered by the evil King Herod--Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that the embryo is a "full and complete" human being, despite being "shapeless." If you are going to call a fetus' termination murder, then it seems somehow inconsistent to deny heaven to the blameless, full and complete victim...
...sidewalk beside the mosque getting drunk and leaving their alcohol bottles littering the pavement. And, in the first week of January, the small garden had to be free to accommodate the thousands of pious Muslims who were expected gather for prayer around the mosque to mark the holy Bayram feast...
...girl," recalls Anne Rice, "we used to pray to Joseph for a happy death.") Eventually he was assumed to protect the Universal Church from heaven as he had the Family on earth. In 1955 Pope Pius XII traded on Joseph's identification as a working man, decreeing a second feast day for him on May 1 to compete with communist May Day galas. In 1962 Pope John XXIII inserted Joseph's name in the canon of the Mass, reportedly the first such addition in over 1,300 years...