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...real pride and joy, however. Sprawling over 70,000 square meters, the market is so colorful and bustling that it will become your ideal of what a Mediterranean seaside marketplace should be. In the shadow of churches and historic architecture, stalls groan under the weight of mounds of olives, vast wheels of cheese, baskets of fresh herbs, plump vine tomatoes and eggplants the size of soccer balls. Even if you buy?and consume?nothing, you'll find the atmosphere alone is totally fulfilling. The market is open until 2 p.m., except Sundays when it is closed...
...Alonzo di Benedetto. But the town's real pride and joy is its colorful, bustling fresh-produce market on the Piazza Carlo Alberto. Sprawling over 70,000 sq m in the shadow of churches and historic architecture, the market's stalls groan under the weight of mounds of olives, vast wheels of cheese, baskets of fresh herbs and eggplants the size of soccer balls. Even if you buy nothing - which would be a miracle of self-restraint - you'll find the atmosphere alone fulfilling. The Piazza Carlo Alberto market is open weekdays and Saturdays until 2 p.m. and is closed...
...seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded...
...second period in particular—when the Raiders attempted the most shots—the vast majority were launched from out beyond the circles and not in close, allowing Daigneau to make relatively easy saves while attempting to find his comfort zone...
...official propaganda channels to produce books, videos and games that praise the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks (yes). They don’t conceal the outbreak of a deadly virus like SARS. They don’t hold millions of peaceful oppositionists, minorities and low-level criminals in a vast slave-labor camp system (known as “Laogai”). They don’t systematically torture and kill practitioners of a meditation sect (Falun Gong). And, of most immediate concern for Harvard, they don’t lock up a pro-democracy activist like Kennedy School graduate Yang...