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...pasta and pizza operation, a vegetable restaurant, a panino bar and a brewery-gastropub on the roof deck. It's a giant undertaking, but Batali is a force of nature. He is creating all of the restaurants himself, after having spent years away from cooking. Whether he can pull it off remains to be seen. But he's psyched to be even trying. (See pictures of Mario Batali...
Critics at the time doubted Wylie’s ability to pull off a solid performance after a string of inconsistent events leading up to the Olympics...
...could not find the back of the net...but it was good to know that even if we aren’t at our best, we can still pull out a win,” Kennifer said...
...Dutch political and public outrage. The result: on Feb. 20, after 16 hours of negotiations with his coalition partners in the Hague, Balkenende's efforts failed and with that came the collapse of his coalition government. New elections are expected within three months, and the Netherlands will now pull its contingent out of Afghanistan by December, leaving a vacuum in the southern Uruzgan province...
...part of a surge in the central Asian country. NATO asked this month for the Dutch mission to be extended beyond 2010. But Balkenende's coalition partners in the center-left Labor Party had already secured a pledge from the coalition's main party, the Christian Democrats, to pull troops out this year. Despite Balkenende's pleas, the Labor Party refused to reconsider. "A plan was agreed when our soldiers went to Afghanistan," said Labor leader and outgoing Finance Minister Wouter Bos. "Our partners in the government didn't want to stick to that plan and, on the basis...