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...Before bargaining begins, the buyer sniffs the cheese, bashes it with his hand to ensure the holes are the right size, and plunges a borer into it to taste the merchandise. If he decides to bid, he shouts out a price, which he accompanies with a hand clap; a stern clap at the end of the bidding seals the deal. Cheese porters, above, who have been hauling 160-kg barrows of sold cheese into the weigh house since the market began, are an equally big attraction. The men still belong to four old guilds; each guild is represented...
...were appalled that in the throes of a priest shortage, the Pope could so conclusively spurn so many willing to help. The Vatican claimed the decision was infallible--an apparent extension of that status beyond its historical boundaries that startled even some of the Pontiff's ardent supporters. That stern patriarch was the Pope, just as much as the genial pilgrim on the plane...
...advantage: by walking away, it would trigger new state elections and almost certainly win. Failure to strike a deal could even force national elections - the last thing Schröder wants right now. The SPD's popularity slumped to 29% in a Forsa poll published in Stern magazine last week, while the CDU rose to 46%. Crucial elections take place on May 22 in North Rhine Westphalia, and recent polls show the SPD could lose that traditional stronghold to the CDU. Defeats in both states would give the CDU control of the upper house, the Bundesrat, putting a stranglehold...
...STERN: South America's big-name jeweler, tel: (56-2) 223 7579, sells good-quality gems at its Santiago branch. One advantage of buying here is that any defects can be fixed, or items returned or exchanged, in any of H. Stern's outlets across South America and the U.S. Read more at www.hstern.net...
Given the postelection focus on "moral values," indecency has been even more oversimplified as a red-state-vs.-blue-state issue. But it doesn't break neatly along Republican and Democrat lines. It is one of the few issues capable of uniting, on one side, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern, and on the other, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. If the FCC is strengthened, Limbaugh has argued, what happens when a future Democratic Administration decides that conservative talk radio is violence-inciting "hate speech"? Meanwhile, earlier this month, Clinton took the stage with Santorum...