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Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or strategic advantage to be gained by artificial distance from the U.S.


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DANA GOODYEAR Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
DANA GOODYEAR I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a m...
DANA GOODYEAR I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even w...
DANA GOODYEAR I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems...
DANA GOODYEAR I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.
DANA GOODYEAR For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also h...
DANA GOODYEAR There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do ...
DANA GOODYEAR I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
DANA GOODYEAR Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
DANA GOODYEAR Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
DANA GOODYEAR Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residenti...
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