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...power struggle among Iraqis to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime may have claimed its first victim Thursday when Ayatollah Abdul Majid al-Khoei was stabbed to death by unknown assailants inside the Imam Ali Mosque, Shiite Islam's holiest shrine, in the city of An Najaf. According to press reports, al-Khoei was killed during a meeting with a rival cleric backed by Saddam's regime over control of the shrine. The reports said al-Khoei had gone to the aid of the regime-backed cleric who had been attacked by a crowd...
...first glance, Pforzheimer’s Meat Locker doesn’t seem like a mecca for Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The walls are laden with cutouts from 30-pack cases of Pabst, Rolling Rock and Bud Light. On the opposite side of the room, facing the shrine of libation, beckons a large poster of Britney Spears. The floor is cluttered with the remainders of a party held the previous weekend. Despite all appearances, however, the territorial tensions between Israel and Palestine are alive and well in Pfoho’s Wolbach basement...
...selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness," chef Bernard Loiseau once said. The ebullient Loiseau ran one of only 25 restaurants in France awarded three stars by the all-powerful Michelin guide. His Cote d'Or restaurant in Saulieu in Burgundy is a shrine to detail, to perfection on a plate. And like the other markets for dreams and happiness--films, say, or fashion or narcotics--it was a brutal pursuit. Loiseau had not taken a vacation in four years. He had planned one for this winter, but last week another French restaurant guide, GaultMillau, inexplicably reduced his ranking...
...right table to sit at. "We endure the duds so you don't have to," promise the authors in the Paris issue. "Read NB assiduously and your travel itinerary will consist of jewel after jewel." But not everything is a jewel: the H?tel Meurice, they decree, is a "shrine to bad taste ... We loathe...
...selling dreams. we are merchants of happiness," chef Bernard Loiseau once said. The ebullient Loiseau ran one of only 25 restaurants in France to be awarded three stars by the all-powerful Michelin guide. His Côte d'Or restaurant in the Burgundy region of France is a shrine to detail, to perfection on a plate. And like the other markets for dreams and happiness - films, say, or fashion or narcotics - it was a brutal pursuit. Loiseau had not taken a vacation in four years. He had planned one for this winter, but last week another French restaurant guide...