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...bustle of activity. Come night, you can join the book-fair partyers at one of Frankfurt's best clubs, Oneninetyeast (www.190east.de), where American-expat, house-legend Joe Jam will be scratching, or head to the King Kamehameha club for a cocktail. When you're hungry, have some local onion-topped Handkäs mit Musik cheese with onions and an oil-and-vinegar dressing, or simply some frankfurters. However you spend your time, one thing is certain. On leaving the huge halls, their shelves and tables crammed with such an abundance of titles, you will firmly agree with the motto...
...PETERSBURG, RUSSIA—As I walked down the Griboedova Canal a few days ago, I gazed at the onion domes of the Church on Spilled Blood. The zig-zagging blues and stripes of gold on its seven cupolas glimmered in the sun, and no matter how many times I walk down Griboedova, their brilliance never fails to grab my attention. The domes, and the church they adorn, were built over the spot where leftist terrorists assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and have glimmered ever since as brilliant reminders of the old tsars in a city already filled with...
...than about the latest deal struck by a cable corporation, and it doesn't look down on readers who want to read about new food-labeling regulations before, say, the U.S. stance on Liberia. Granted, the paper still sometimes runs ditsy articles that seem like parodies out of the Onion. For instance, last Monday it ran strong investigations of the undercovered Bush nuclear-weapons policy and of how budget cutbacks may have been a factor in the space-shuttle disaster--but also a feature asking blond lawyers the burning question, Is Legally Blonde 2 true to life? (Answer: It totally...
...soldiers approached, they realized that the airfield was really an onion field...
According to Barnes, the soldiers named this blunder “The Invasion of the Onion Field...