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...final challenger, which will take on the Swiss boat in 2007. When Team Shosholoza showed up for the first pre-Cup regattas in Marseilles, France, two years ago, they won a lot of sympathy, but lagged far behind in most of the races. Cobbled together by an eccentric, Italian-born shipping tycoon and sailing enthusiast who lives in Durban, Shosholoza lacks just about everything conventional wisdom holds that a team needs to be successful. They can't compete with the experience, technological prowess and $100 million-plus budgets of teams like U.S. entry BMW-Oracle (put together by software billionaire...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, who indicated plans to step down this week after having refused to concede his April 10 defeat to Romano Prodi, following the closest election in modern Italian history...
...opportunity for members to learn how to pair food with wine, as well as a time for enjoying the pleasure that fine food, wine, and conversation bring.”LEARNING THE LINGO The Crimson attended one such Vino event last month, an evening filled with Italian varietals, nose evaluation, and excessive swirling. Arcane terminology peppered the night, as Brown and more experienced wine-tasters instructed their peers in the art of speaking wine. Commenting on the first wine of the evening, Brown notes that he “doesn’t like goopy white wines...
...winter, U.S. World & News Report’s ritual crowning of Harvard will stabilize our jolted foundations, and most of our graduating class will exit Johnston Gate with promising jobs. For Harvard is Harvard: the most famous college in the world. When my brother and I met a beautiful Italian waitress in Florence who barely spoke English, she asked where we studied. “Princeton,” he said; she simply shrugged her shoulders. “Harvard,” I replied, and in a flash, her eyes lit up with excitement. “Harvard?! Amazing...
...staring down rodents and rummaging through rubbish for a long time—but he still recalls one of the most egregious restaurant violations in his two-decade-long career.The assistant commissioner, who was once a sanitary inspector, says he observed an extreme case of cross-contamination at one Italian restaurant many years ago.“There was a vat—had to be 30 gallons—of tomato sauce, and a couple of shelves above it was raw chicken,” he says, gesticulating, engrossed in the memory. “The chicken was defrosting...