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...Proceedings kick off with the Irish oyster opening championship, but the highlight for most visitors is the international shucking contest, when contestants from as far afield as Singapore and Estonia compete for the world title. Scandinavians have held the top spot in recent years (in 2004, Oslo chef Ola Nilsson unseated the previous year's Swedish winner). The trick is to combine speed with precision. Competitors are penalized if their oysters contain grit, or if flesh is improperly detached from the shells or damaged...
Columbia’s Caroline Bierbaum placed second in a time of 15:52.53, just over two seconds behind Northern Arizona’s Ida Nilsson...
Kerry's lackluster years in the senate show that he would be the worst kind of President--drab, passive, waffling and doing whatever his liberal Democratic friends in Congress tell him to do. DEX NILSSON Huntsville...
...Betsy, as she likes to be called, is often the first person a designer contacts when it's time to sign a contract. She represented Alexander McQueen when he left Givenchy and sold a majority stake in his company to the Gucci Group. She handled the contracts for Lars Nilsson and Rick Owens at Nina Ricci and Revillon, respectively, and is representing architect Thomas Juul-Hansen in a deal to design stores for jeweler David Yurman...
...roles in Verdi's Aida and Don Carlo, Giordano's Andrea Chenier and Puccini's Turandot. His muscular build and booming voice made him an ideal romantic lead opposite sopranos such as Maria Callas. Corelli liked to hold key notes for as long as possible. Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson claimed Corelli bit her on the neck during a 1961 Boston performance of Turandot because she outlasted him in the climactic note of a duet. (He denied...