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...Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the author of several cookbooks and host of the River Cottage series on British television, also touts offal as an alternative to prime cuts. Recent episodes of the show included footage of a whole pig being butchered, with Fearnley-Whittingstall demonstrating how to cook every piece of the animal, a practice he encourages...
...gilded walls of Lancaster House could speak, they would surely have interrupted Monday's meeting there to rebuke Gordon Brown for failing to invite Angela Merkel. Britain's Prime Minister was joined at the elegant mansion in London by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and E.U. Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to discuss concerted European efforts to tackle the economic downturn, but there was no place at the table for the German Chancellor...
...Karamanlis or tanks." That was the choice that Konstantinos Karamanlis posed to Greeks in 1974 upon his return from self-imposed exile in Paris after the overthrow of the country's military junta. The popular former Prime Minister's triumphant return to Athens to lead the country's transition back to democracy was followed by his sweeping election victory and a place in history as one of modern Greece's great statesmen...
...years later, Karamanlis' nephew Costas Karamanlis is Prime Minister as Greece faces its worst riots in a generation. Radical youths and riot police clashed Tuesday for a fourth straight day following the Dec. 6 fatal shooting of a 15-year-old by Athens police. During a Cabinet meeting Monday night, Karamanlis considered a proposal to declare a state of emergency, and the possibility that troops could return to the streets of Athens for the first time since the military dictatorship of 1967-74. (See pictures of Athens in flames...
...least, the 52-year-old Prime Minister has ruled out military intervention, hoping the police can restore order without the government's having to resort to martial law. Professor Thanos Dokos, head of the Athens-based think tank ELIAMEP, says that "even the thought of employing the Greek army to quell the civil disturbances ... is preposterous." Beyond the historical burden the armed forces carry in Greece, Dokos says "they are neither trained nor equipped for riot control...