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Tomas Jirsa, a confident, gum-chewing 19-year-old from Prague, is standing on Kildare Street in Dublin, handing out leaflets and wearing a bright red vest that proclaims: I'm from the Czech Republic and against nice - ask me why. Nice is shorthand for the European Union enlargement treaty...
It sounds laughably upper crust, but once you unwrap a Coronation Chicken sandwich, the name seems almost appropriate. It's made with white meat, mango chutney, fresh-roasted almonds and a curry dressing. And it's the signature product of Pret A Manger (that's French for "ready to eat...
Aesthetic appeal is also a factor. Bike racks take up a lot of space, and often installing them translates into displacing trees and bushes.
The College administration, as channeled through the body, mind and spirit of Philip A. Bean, former associate dean of freshmen, laid out Harvard’s official party line on the matter in FM last February. According to a Harvard-commissioned study of “area college students,?...
Michel Bon turned France Telecom (FT) from a national fixed-line phone company into a European powerhouse. But the acquisition binge that brought the company Orange, a 28.5% stake in MobilCom and a disastrously expensive 3G presence also left it with a staggering debt of nearly ?70 billion, and as...