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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
Underground commuters in Prague who are looking for love will soon be able to try their luck in designated dating cars, a transport spokesman said Friday. “People meet there, pass by each other, and if they like one another they can start a relationship,” ...
The Model S electric car of Tesla Motors has tied an older Toyota Lexus for the highest score ever recorded in Consumer Reports magazine’s automotive testing. The Model S, which starts at $62,400 after a federal tax credit, scored 99 on a scale of ...
New York City, with its constant hum of subways, buses, cabs and ferries, has long had one glaring exception to its many transportation options: bicycles for the masses. But bike-sharing is finally coming to the Big Apple, which could help the city overcome its ...
Telecommuting, a growing trend in the U.S. workplace, is coming under fresh scrutiny following news that Yahoo is curbing the practice. The trend of working from home has been gaining steam for decades as part of a workplace evolution that allows greater family-work balance ...
In proposals likely to infuriate Germany, the EU executive will this month urge an end to Europe’s last rail monopolies and thus open the lucrative passenger market to competition from 2019. The toughest opposition to the European Commission’s plan is likely to come from ...