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This brightly-decorated, cozily-romantic café has been tucked away off Newbury Street for 12 years. According to owner Moshe Sander, local students and visiting tourists flock to his handmade tables for platters of falafel, shawarma and kebabs. Served on a bed of creamy baba ganoush, tahini and slightly salty hummus drizzled with olive oil and paprika, Sander’s falafel is crunchy and crispy on the outside, with a heavy, crumbly inner texture. Accented by onions and green peppers, the mixed chicken and lamb kebabs arrive sizzling at the table, while the chicken and lamb shawarma selections...
...Trafalgar Square, where numbers fell from 4,000 to just 200 after a 2001 ban on feed sellers and the recruitment of a harrier hawk. But not all cities are inhospitable. In Venice, feed sellers can be fined up to $590, but those catering to the 40,000-strong flock of St. Mark's Square are exempt. Paris officially welcomes pigeons as "the only sign of biodiversity in the city center," but is now testing public pigeonniers - lofts like those already in use in 20 German cities. Each houses hundreds of birds: their mess is contained and their eggs removed...
...general store in a little village in southwest New Hampshire. My parents—as well as a few locals who heard about this piece pre-publication—insisted that I redact the town’s name from this article lest swarms of Crimson readers flock there for leaf-peeping or house-buying. This was probably unnecessary as most college students are not in the New England real estate market. Moreover, my new hometown is one of the smallest in the state and would-be passersby are deterred by the fact that no major roads go near...
...suicide attacks carried a Syrian passport, suggesting involvement by foreign jihadis. Some analysts suspect the suicide tactics, mass-casualty attacks on "soft" targets and synchronicity of the latest wave of bombings suggests the involvement of al-Qaeda or similarly inspired jihadists. Al-Qaeda has certainly urged its supporters to flock to Iraq to fight the Americans, and hundreds of foreign fighters are believed to have heeded such calls. But it's far from clear how such elements may be interacting with local insurgents, and even signature al-Qaeda tactics may well be borrowed by locals. Al-Qaeda operatives...
Twenty-five years and counting is an extraordinary tenure for any pontiff, and only two others have reigned longer than the 264th pope. But it's not only John Paul II's longevity that has made him synonymous with the papacy in the minds of many of his own flock, and the wider world; he has dramatically redefined the role with his relentless evangelical energy. Most of John Paul II's predecessors were almost prisoners in the Vatican, and had rarely ventured beyond the walls of the Holy See. John Paul II took the Catholic Church out on the road...