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...Sitting in his Bedouin tent in Tripoli a year ago, Gaddafi clearly fancied himself a man of the future, not a revolutionary dinosaur. An avid Web surfer, he tapped a thick finger on a keyboard and stared into the glow of a flat screen computer. He likes the English news on Google but had trouble maneuvering there on the day TIME paid him a visit. Instead, he clicked on one of his Favorites, a site called Gaddafi Speaks. "You have my views on reforming the United Nations, the problems of Palestine, Korea and Turkey?s admission to the European Union...
...stalls peddling eclectica. Among the new arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk. "Is this a chain?" asked my Friday lunch companion. Not yet, but it's easy to imagine blond wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare?macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts?served with a mission statement that boasts of the kitchen's organic and local sourcing. There is a Fast Service menu for those who can only flee their desk...
...Congressman Ney wanted to help to restore the Tribe's ability to conduct gaming on their reservation." Brian Walsh, a spokesman for Ney says the Congressman never brought the Tigua matter up in committee, and says, "The [Volz] plea, as it relates to Ney is rich with inaccuracies and flat-out falsehoods...
...Among the new arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk. "Is this a chain?" asked my Friday lunch companion. Not yet, but it's easy to imagine blond wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare - macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts - served with a mission statement that boasts of the kitchen's organic and local sourcing...
...perfect incarnation of Dickens’ notoriously one-dimensional characters (“So does this mean that everyone can be a good person even if they don’t look like one on the surface?” she asks Darnay in a flat voice). Certainly, much more meaning could be drawn out from all of this—using the French peasants’ habit of making ridiculous, rhymed slogans as political commentary, for example—but to do so would be to miss the point. “A Tale of Two Cities?...