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...Benedetto insists. And neither Crea nor Trombetta can find fault with his excellent pizza, spaghetti vongole and grilled swordfish. "It was no different from Italy," Crea declares. After the limoncello, Benedetto appears and presents a fax, with a flourish. After several phone calls, hands flying, he has extracted a letter from the supplier promising that all the meat is from Italy. Then Benedetto, smiling and shouting good wishes, shows us to the door of his authentic Italian restaurant...
Franken says he even received a letter acknowledging his apology from Cardinal Edward Egan...
Alan Dershowitz either cannot or refuses to understand why there is a controversy surrounding The Case for Israel (Letter, “Plagiarism Accusations Political, Unfounded,” Sept. 30). Perhaps I can enlighten him. Quite simply, the book he claims to have written is a hoax: (1) substantial swatches are lifted from another notorious hoax on the Israel-Palestine conflict, (2) it is replete with egregious falsifications, and (3) the few scholarly sources actually cited are mangled beyond recognition. In this reply, I will only illustrate points (1) and (2). These, along with point (3), will be fully...
Dershowitz similarly “checked” Peters’s other sources. Quoting a statement depicting the miserable fate of Jews in mid-19th century Jerusalem, Peters cites a British consular letter from “Wm. T. Young to Viscount Canning.” Dershowitz cites the same statement as Peters, reporting that Young “attributed the plight of the Jew in Jerusalem” to pervasive anti-Semitism. Turning to the original, however, we find that the relevant statement did not come from Young but, as is unmistakably clear to anyone who actually consulted...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to both Tokyo and transitory friendship with her newest film, Lost in Translation. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Suntory whiskey to the natives. There he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer who spends much of her day staring out her window in hopes of somehow finding herself within the city’s skyline. The pair are soon discovering Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship...