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...Best Indoor Market: The Market Hall, a large two-story building with scores of stalls selling traditional Hungarian wares, from em-broidered linen to hot paprika and salami. Fövám körút 1-3. Open weekdays 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Mondays), Saturdays...
...When big money intersects with horse racing, however, even the most polished institution can get a little mud on its linen. The arrival of the Year of the Horse finds the Jockey Club bogged down in its worst gambling scandal in memory. Last month, two of the club's top jockeys, South African Robbie Fradd and Irishman John Egan, were called in for questioning in a race-fixing investigation conducted by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption. According to the ICAC, a four-month probe called Operation Green turned up evidence that racing professionals were providing inside information...
...elevation to a worldwide theme is crystallized in terms of Auschwitz. Scrawled on the walls are descriptions of SS officers killed by gypsy and Jewish inmates in a desperate attempt to alleviate their own insurmountable suffering. The silk-screened natural linen colored tablecloth that elegantly drapes over a simple table in the room’s center serves as a symbolic burial cloth of all those who have suffered, physically and emotionally. As the final connection, the Auschwitz portal inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei” / “Work sets you Free” is constructed...
Discussing press coverage of grade inflation in his final letter, dated this Feb. 1, he recalled a colleague’s comment at Oxford, “One can hardly hear oneself speak for the noise of clean linen being washed in public...
...journey is such a pleasure that, contrary to most train rides, passengers complain that the 10-hour trip is too short. The experience is mashed potatoes, fried rice and your mother's chicken noodle soup all rolled into one. With its combination of opulence?uniformed waiters, linen tablecloths?and the back-in-time feeling of train travel, it's also a near-perfect antidote to the on-the-road chaos and rush more common today. Call it the inner-peace train. For more information and reservations, call (844) 933-0318 or e-mail victoriasapa@fpt.vn...