Word: plaines
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Further down the road, there is similarly inventive fare at the 360, www.360istanbul.com, a swank glass and chrome affair with incredible views of the city. Kokorec, sautéed lamb's intestines traditionally served plain on bread, comes finely chopped with sun-dried tomatoes and a roasted red pepper sauce and baked in filo pastry. In the same Beyoglu area is Cezayir, www.cezayir-istanbul.com, a restaurant-bar converted from an Italian primary school and a favorite with hipsters. Here, tandoori chicken is served with the unlikely accompaniment of pistachio rice, and liver paté is accented with Aegean herbs...
This is moral relativism at its most dangerous; refusing to recognize the partnership that Israel has with the United States and its allies while making it a target for condemnation on par with terrorist states is not liberal open-mindedness, its just plain wrong. Israel’s humanitarian, technological, medical, and scientific contributions must also be mentioned in any balanced debate. Their consistent omission in the academic rhetoric is what makes it so easy for the public to see Israel’s wrongs in unduly high relief. Even worse, when activists like Matory are not too busy condemning...
...people who receive the roughly 30 e-mails sent each hour through the Risk interface by game players. Most of them are fairly technical and straightforward—“How do I change my password?”—while a few are just plain nice—“YOU ROCK! Whoever you are.” Others, however, are malicious: Some undergraduates are taking Harvard Risk far too seriously...
...their side when they need it." Sarkozy also declared that he wants "to rehabilitate work, authority, morality, respect and merit." André Glucksmann, a philosopher who has embraced Sarkozy, sees a parallel to this revolutionary epoch. "France was liberated in May '68," he says. "Now Sarkozy, with his plain talk, has shaken up France again...
...this has been a welcome change from generations of hokey fairy tales with stultifying lessons: Be nice and wait for your prince; be obedient and don't stray off the path; bad people are just plain evil and ugly and deserve no mercy. But palace revolutions can have their own excesses. Are the rules of fairy-tale snark becoming as rigid as the ones they overthrew? Are we losing a sense of wonder along with all the illusions...