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...total 19. The President is still beloved by the state's Republican faithful, as evidenced by the fact that 500 of them showed up to see him at a $1,000-a-plate private fund raiser for Senator Rick Santorum last week in Sewickley Heights, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Santorum posed for photos with the President at the airport and leaned into a smiling handshake with political guru Karl Rove. But it was telling that Santorum, who is trailing state treasurer Bob Casey by 10 points in the latest polls, scheduled no public appearances with Bush. When Cheney flew...
...find sashimi in every street, oysters within any budget and fish and chips raised to crisp, succulent art. Our pick of Sydney's four fishiest experiences: TETSUYA'S: To many, chef Tetsuya Wakada's golden age was the time when he operated in an unmarked house in the suburb of Rozelle, and you had to knock on a graffiti-covered back door for admission. But the great man has proven that he can make the transition to a downtown operation without any loss of originality. A minimalist, city-center bungalow is now the setting for Tetsuya's stunning 10-course...
...breathe the fine air of France!" As he spoke in mock-heroic tones last week, Sayed Diakite, 19, a student from the southern suburbs of Paris, was smiling gleefully, and weeping at the same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon Marché department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, his eyes were running in reaction to pungent tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, Diakite and his fellow students felt a budding sense of empowerment. Up to half a million...
...subterranean "suq shopping experience" planned. We've stopped by the chic Emirates Towers Boulevard to mooch around Villa Moda, the designer emporium that also has stores in Kuwait, Qatar and Bombay. And Alanoud has taken me to the Village Mall, near her family home in the ritzy suburb Jumeirah, where the latest must-have accessory is a clutch bag made from a gutra, the checked head scarf worn by Arab...
...retired husband have converted their garage into an activity room, and their grandchildren have grown up playing with the children she looks after. "They become like family," she says. For those who can afford it, nannies are another choice. Long waiting lists for day-care in her Auckland suburb are one reason why Tanya Field plans to have her six-month-old daughter share a nanny with another child when she returns to work this year. Another is the one-on-one relationship: "I like the idea of my child getting to know someone and feeling really secure with them...