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...Indeed, Woody Allen, William Klein, Philip Roth, Paul Auster and so many other American creative spirits are bigger draws in this country, with its supposedly moribund culture, than they are in the U.S. No doubt, you will say, this is because our French artists are not up to scratch, and our public turns to talents from elsewhere...
...from a few weeks back, how much of it is a result of not having the backroom staff that some of the other campaigns have? A lot of it is the result of us campaigning 20 hours a day. I mean, you know, we had to just scratch and scrape for every inch of the territory that we got. So much of it was that we literally were having to just do as many events as possible. Now we are able to be a little more disciplined and focused on the events that...
...civilization. He compared abortion to the practice of slavery, and quoted liberally from the Bible. It is rhetoric he sparingly used before more mixed audiences or on the trail in New Hampshire, where voters tend to be more private about their religious views. "You try to always scratch where the itch is," Huckabee explained to the press, in an interview over the weekend. "That's true whether it's speeches or your own sores...
...capital of cassoulet, but shudders at the sheer volume of the stuff generated in the town's environs: an average of 120 tons is factory-canned there every day. Luckily, at his lively restaurant Au Petit Gazouillis, Alain van Ees Beeck has been cooking Castelnaudary cassoulet from scratch for nearly 20 years. With peppery Montagne Noire sausage, creamy Lauragais beans - slow-cooked with ham hock for a rich, smoky taste - and the farm-raised duck confit famous in Castelnaudary, Van Ees Beeck can boast an authenticity no mass-produced cassoulet can match...
...those things and come back. In a way - and this is an odd silver lining out of a destructive storm that nobody asked for - it allows us to leapfrog and make bigger changes than can be done elsewhere. We're now getting to rebuild - in some cases from scratch - our schools, our health care infrastructure, our transportation infrastructure. We now have the opportunity to incorporate the best technology, the latest thinking, in a way that other communities can't always do. It's not a good thing the storms happened. Over 1,000 people lost their lives and there...