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Though you won’t find a McDonald’s nearby, you can come pretty close with a meal at Flat Patties (81 Mt. Auburn Street), a fast food restaurant in the Garage owned by the same people who run Felipe’s. The meat will fall apart as you try to eat it, but the burgers are nonetheless delectable. The fries are small and crispy, just how I like them...
...journalist--phones are often tapped, sources sometimes harassed--but the economic developments that have transformed this country bring with them an infectious optimism. People's lives are getting better. The polite packer helping to direct traffic in our apartment told my husband he had helped move us into our flat three years ago. Back then he was a simple day laborer; now he's a foreman. Many stories in China have a similar upward trajectory. If for nothing else, I would miss China for the promise it holds...
...demanding the kitchen reopen to provide us with brunch. Our evening antics - well, I'll come to those. Suffice to say for now that we thoroughly tested L'Andana - and the patience of saints. This part of the Maremma, a languid 21/2-hour drive up the coast from Rome, is flat, marshy terrain quite unlike the undulating landscapes of more familiar parts of Tuscany. There isn't much to tempt travelers to break their journeys; no major art galleries or unmissable architecture, just some Etruscan ruins, a pretty coastal village called Castiglione della Pescaia where locals reel in coach tours...
...song cycle on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Her Pygmalion is sweetly yearning, her Persephone sexy over a Latin beat. In the hard-edged Whiteworld/Oedipus, the Greek King is an arrogant white imperialist in the Third World. These intricate, ruminative works are a long way from the blues in B flat--and they're worth the stretch...
...Only God was saving us," says a fighter who gave his name only as Al-Hajj. He and his four colleagues were driving a dented black SUV, the windows blown out and a rear tire squashed flat. One of his comrades had a bloody bandage wrapped around his head. They were all dressed in grubby civilian clothes, although some had combat trousers and boots. "The Israeli enemy used all kinds of weapons against the resistance men, but despite this we overcame them because of our unity and religion," says a grinning Al-Hajj, fired up with a zeal that overcame...