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...Half Shell is more of a walk for Yardlings and River-folk, but free delivery until 11 p.m. guarantees that you won’t have to leave your dorm for more than five minutes. Favorites include the pesto pizza, a reporteredly authentic Italian dish covered in spinach, tomatoes, onions and feta cheese. Meat-lovers can go for the grilled chicken pizza or choose from a list of hot calzones and sub sandwiches...
...paced and read the text aloud. "She wanted to hear the cadences," says Roth, "and I wanted to know whether, at any point, she was at all unsure of my idiom and its precise connotation." When it was done, Kamoun and Roth celebrated over bowls of spaghetti at an Italian restaurant. Neither could muster a word during dinner. "We were exhausted, spent of language," she recalls. Roth and the other writers she translates know how valuable her contribution is. And discerning readers sense...
...Café aspires to be. With its jet-set clientele, notoriously frosty service and prime location on Newbury, little wonder it’s earned a reputation as one of Boston’s see-and-be-seen hotspots du jour. The menu’s high-end, Northern Italian-inspired specialties exhibit genuine flavor and flair—albeit in small portions. The scene—uptown New York lounge with a clean Italian edge—lives up to the Café’s claim of “chic yet casual...
...arming themselves?and not just in the villages. Every Sunday a Thai businessman drives his armor-plated car to a navy firing range outside Narathiwat town, where he and other local Buddhists practice how to shoot. While a bank manager and a bookshop owner blast away with sleek Italian-made shotguns, the businessman?who doesn't want to be named?takes out a Walther PPK pistol and deftly peppers a target with bullets. "Want to try?" he asks through wisps of choking cordite. "We are being victimized and killed every day. The government has no power to stop this, which...
...looks out on Tripoli, it is hard to grasp the potential. The city's crumbling old Italian colonial buildings are set amid billboards hailing Libya's socialist revolution and trumpeting the power of the "people's committees," Gaddafi's version of local democracy. But Libya's fans insist the possibilities are real. In the Corinthia--Libya's only luxury hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms--Western executives crowd the lobby, rubbing shoulders with politicians and diplomats. The U.S. liaison office, the prelude to a real embassy, now operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely...