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HIGHEST-PRICED PASTA The single most expensive pasta extant is the soft egg raviolo (the singular of ravioli) that is a $36 hot ticket at San Domenico, the best new Italian restaurant to open in Manhattan in the past five years. The large silky square of pasta enfolds spinach, ricotta cheese and a whole egg yolk that poaches as the raviolo cooks. But the reason for the price lies in the topping of hazelnut butter and a fine, if sparse, mincing of white truffles...
...that the reader thought he was holding, because the reader will quickly discover that he does not hold the Khazar dictionary itself, but only a collection of its fragments, among them bits of the 1691 edition of Joannes Daubmannus (rumored to survive; the reader could search for the last extant copy, printed in a poisonous...
Jacobs' greatest flaw, however, is his excessive faith in international law. His hopeful epilogue that the future will see greater realization of the potential inherent in extant international law is more sanguine than the balance of the book warrants...
...must remember King's failure as well. He was not content to settle for legislative gains alone. Pressing on to the Northern cities, he attempted to harness the diverse energies and philosophies of an increasingly militant movement to redress inequities extant in America's ghettoes. That the task was much more difficult and that he did not succeed are also part of American history...
...play by Anton Chekhov, and certainly not one written in English rather than his native Russian. But Adapter Michael Frayn has achieved the satisfying illusion of one in Wild Honey, a dizzyingly funny romantic farce culled from Chekhov's untitled, and by most estimates unproducible, first extant play. Frayn is best known in the U.S. as the playwright of Noises Off, a slapstick send-up of British sex comedy, and Benefactors, a regretful recollection of the relations between two young professional couples. Wild Honey marries the wry and the rowdy strains in Frayn's writing and at the same time...