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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), was an 18th century scandal magnet for having both a swine and a swain--an icy, cheating husband (Ralph Fiennes) and a Whig politician lover (Dominic Cooper). This middling drama is less a history lesson than a tour of sumptuous real estate. The loveliest acreage is Knightley's alabaster back...
...gangly 20-year-old stuffing his face with a day-old cornetto. Giuseppe waved, and the powdered sugar stuck to his puffed cheeks blew into the wind. The chef handed me a double-breasted uniform when I showed up that night for the dinner shift. After a brief tour of the kitchen, he introduced me to the other cooks in the kitchen. There was one person on each station—antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci—and I was to shadow the chef’s girlfriend Alessandra on sweets. Working 14 hours a day, six days...
...wrong, Samantha Power gets it more right than ever [Aug. 25]. Of course Putin is the real driving force of Russian aggression, and not his mouthpiece President Medvedev. While being rightly proud of its recent astonishing development, Russia is at the same time on the brink of a tour of conquest to restore its lost empire. We all know what happened the last time it did so: this Georgian adventure will not be its last. Maarten Molenaar, VEENENDAAL, THE NETHERLANDS...
Palmer will end his tour at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland on Dec. 1, after traveling 300,000 miles and visiting upwards of 40 countries...
...realize all that I would have been forced to sacrifice along the way. Shawn Johnson—the 16-year-old gymnast who had contributed to my intense retrospection the days before—joined NBC’s program, and I was assigned to take her on a tour of the Great Wall...