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...brainchild of Turkish-born industrialist turned hotelier Fuat Mehmetoglu, the 70-room, Bauhaus-inspired bolt-hole is built around a courtyard close to Austria's legislature in tony Josefstadt. All guest rooms feature flat-screen TVs, tastefully understated decor, and bathrooms with heated stone floors and glass-enclosed rain showers. The hotel's bar-restaurant, Nemtoi, keeps things sweet and simple, too. Dishes like gnocchi served with cilantro pesto or homemade ravioli with mint-and-potato stuffing and ginger cabbage are deliciously good and light, as is the overall experience of the Levante itself - leaving you in a better frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parliamentary Briefing | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...brainchild of Turkish-born industrialist turned hotelier Fuat Mehmetoglu, the 70-room, Bauhaus-inspired bolt-hole is built around a courtyard close to Austria's legislature in tony Josefstadt. All guest rooms feature flat-screen TVs, tastefully understated decor, and bathrooms with heated stone floors and glass-enclosed rain showers. The hotel's bar-restaurant, Nemtoi, keeps things sweet and simple, too. Dishes like gnocchi served with cilantro pesto or homemade ravioli with mint-and-potato stuffing and ginger cabbage are deliciously good and light, as is the overall experience of the Levante itself, leaving you in a better frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parliamentary Briefing | 11/11/2006 | See Source »

...Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition,” a two-disc expanded reissue, is the Wowee Zowee of Pavement reissues. Confusing and repetitive, this two-disc set pales in comparison to the exquisite re-releases of “Slanted & Enchanted” and “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.”However, as a historical document, it does an admirable job of capturing the greatest rock band of the past two decades at a profoundly strange moment in their existence.After the soaring hooks of 1994’s “Crooked Rain?...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD OF THE WEEK: Pavement | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...Baghdad after overnight showers rinsed the city of several layers of desert sand. Late in the morning, Ahmed Hussein, a government-employed street sweeper, looked up into the overcast and still-rumbling skies and nodded approvingly. "This is the right weather for a day like this," he said. "The rain is God's blessing upon the verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam Is Sentenced to Death, and Iraq Shrugs | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...many Iraqis, the death sentence passed on their former dictator Sunday was not so much a cleansing autumnal rain as just another thunderclap - albeit a particularly loud one - in the middle of a terrible and unending storm. Once the clatter of celebratory gunfire that greeted the verdict had died down, Iraqis' thoughts returned to their own future, and the depressing realization that it is no less bleak than it was yesterday. "Whether Saddam lives or dies is not important to me," shrugs Imad Mohammed, a computer technician. "I'm not even sure whether my family and I will live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam Is Sentenced to Death, and Iraq Shrugs | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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