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Most of the chairs at�the Prime Minister's table are empty now, and the long cloth is littered with the remains of a large early-evening repast: half-eaten bowls of lamb and okra, traces of hummus, a dented mound of rice. As he stirs three small, white tablets of artificial sweetener into a tear-shaped glass of tea, Ibrahim al-Jaafari describes the scolding he gave the Minister of the Interior that morning. A U.S. raid the day before had found evidence that Iraqi police were torturing detainees at a secret prison in Baghdad. Soon after...
...always delightful, of course, and visitors who don't venture beyond the hotel and museum districts may wonder what all the fuss is about. Despite our best efforts to find local gems serving traditional Catalan fare, we couldn't shake dishes of gluey paella, watery gazpacho, oversalted cod and lamb scraps advertised as cutlet. In Madrid, where Moroccan food is in vogue, we ordered a salad at a trendy place called Mosaiq and received taco filling. A dollop of wasabi next to a greasy piece of fish was the chef's idea of fusion...
...book, Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything, spent six years in 44 countries searching for the 1,000 international dishes that were perfectly au point. His finds highlight such local flavors as salads from Turkey (bulgur and tomato with nuts) and Scandinavia (beets with horseradish) and lamb dishes from Greece (leg with thyme and orange), India (marinated lamb "Popsicles" with fenugreek cream sauce) and the Middle East (lamb burgers). The recipes are concise and inspiring and manage to make the sometimes exotic seem familiar...
...make a poignant film about Bosnian war victims. Gervais’ cohorts include Ashley Jensen as Andy’s dim-witted friend Maggie Jacobs, and his “Office” and “Extras” co-creator Stephen Merchant as useless agent Darren Lamb...
...sculptor since Michelangelo and made it the vessel of passions-pain, pathos, ecstasy-that the increasingly insipid conventions of 19th century statuary could not contain. That is immediately apparent in his magnificent Saint John the Baptist, a lean, striding nude who bears no attributes of the saint-no lamb, no staff-so that the saint's spiritual force is expressed entirely in the headlong power of his anatomy...