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...turns on the Irish charm to sweet-talk the press operators...
...entered on cue, inspiring the stunned soldiers to leap to their feet and cheer. A few hours later, Americans watching television at home heard that their President had made a secret visit to Baghdad to share Thanksgiving dinner with the troops. Scenes of President Bush serving turkey and sweet potatoes to G.I.s saturated the news for the next 24 hours and beyond...
...ancient Chinese invented it, medieval Arabs adapted it and modern Germans made it a winter staple. But the world's finest marzipan?that oh-so-sweet confection of sugar and almond paste?is made by the cloistered nuns of holy Toledo, Spain. The city, once capital of much of the Iberian peninsula, has several other tourist draws: one of the world's finest Gothic cathedrals, exquisite gold-inlaid damascene jewelry and magnificent swords. But the Spanish themselves say no Christmas celebration is complete without the nun-made sweets...
...center of the novel is Rizalina, a sweet and resilient servant girl, who comes to Manila to work as a servant for Zamora L?pez de Legazpi, a rich man who claims to have discovered a group of Stone Age cave dwellers in the country's south. (Hagedorn's inspiration for this plot line is the real-life "discovery" of the Tasaday tribe in 1971, later denounced as a hoax.) Rizalina concludes that Zamora has become uncomfortably enamored with her, and she runs away to become a dancer in a seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American...
...practically a full-time job for college students in the Boston area. But beyond the necessary long-term love-affair with Gore-Tex, the snowstorms have their benefits. Boston and its environs are a veritable fantasyland of wintry treats. So make like a Christmas chocolate box with these sweet-as-candy winter escapades that will put a glow in your cheek and a spring in your (snow-shoed) step...