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...Holiday hotel at St Lucia's Le Sport resort, he turns out exquisite dishes that have a distinctive Asian flavor and yet seem right at home on this volcanic isle. If you can't choose from a menu studded with so many tantalizing items, there's an easy solution: opt for the Tao Taste Plate of grilled beef tenderloin, pan-seared red snapper and wok-fried king prawns. Two other standouts are the conch fritters and the laksa (pictured above)?a coconut-milk-based noodle soup that can be bland when served outside its native Malaysia, but packs a Caribbean...
...choose from a menu studded with so many tantalizing items, there's an easy solution: opt for the Tao Taste Plate of grilled beef tenderloin, pan-seared red snapper and wok-fried king prawns. Two other standouts are the conch fritters and the laksa - a coconut milk?based noodle soup that can be bland when served outside its native Malaysia, but packs a Caribbean punch...
...quick to admit that this year’s women’s basketball team lacked the star power that former standouts Hana Peljto ’04 and Reka Cserny ’05 gave it. In the absence of superstars, Delaney-Smith said, the Crimson would opt for balance—and Harvard did just that in Friday’s 77-58 romp over Penn.Eleven players scored in the Crimson’s most balanced output of the season, with senior guard Laura Robinson and sophomore guard Lindsay Hallion leading the charge with 11 points a piece...
...bought over the counter in England as late as the 1950s.The Chinese government’s own attitude seemed ambivalent. Even in the later 1830s, the emperor’s advisers were divided between enforcing prohibition and legalizing, regulating, and taxing opium imports. Only in 1839 did the emperor opt for a strict prohibition, sending the admirable Commissioner Lin to Canton to see to it. Lin ordered the surrender of every last ounce of opium at three days notice, forbade the traders to leave Canton, and surrounded them with armed soldiers. Shortly afterwards the traders and their families...
...popular resentment of corrupt autocratic rulers, to establish a strong foothold in Middle-East politics. Furthermore, the American administration and its European counterparts will have to—rightly—reassess aid flowing to the Palestinian Authority. In the process, they should keep in mind that, if they opt to cut the light on our neighborhood, innocent people will be left in the dark to fend for themselves, while Hamas will continue to flourish from aid coming from Iran and other sympathetic wealthy Arab and Muslim regimes.For now, the prospects of peace continue to be dim. Should...