Bucking convention further, Moali skipped the usual Moroccan hammam, or European-style spa, and instead brought in Thai-massage therapists trained at the Wat Po temple in Bangkok to practice their craft and also teach the art of Thai massage to the public.
Still, he violated his instructions and drilled for oil--and found huge natural gas reserves in Italy's Po Valley.
"Mr. Sarkozy has bet he could replay the 2007 election, " said Emiliano Grossman of Sciences Po University in Paris.
Normally, we wouldn't mix cartoon characters with live actors, but in this case, Po was definitely a breakout star.
Coming in second behind Fox is Po, the panda from Kung Fu Panda who was voiced by Jack Black.
In a forthcoming study of voters undertaken after the recent presidential elections, Nonna Mayer, a professor at Sciences Po, argues that the increase in support for the National Front can almost entirely be put down to a shift in the allegiance of working-class women.
The centre-right opposition Civic Platform (PO) is strongly in favour of an early election and the centre-left Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) has also stated that it would like an early poll.
But the most recent statue - it took quite a long time for all the 100 statues to come in, but the most recent statute was Po'pay from New Mexico.
Batali says in his sound bite that opening a restaurant was easier in 1993 when he debuted his first restaurant, Po.
Its popularity has slumped, to 29%, barely ahead of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, which in previous years had been kept firmly at bay by PO.
It gained a majority north of the Po only because of the small-town vote in the League's strongholds of Lombardy and Veneto.
The whole thing is conceived and elaborated in the jargons of marketing and leisure theory with a mad, po-faced inventiveness that is also entirely plausible.
Dedicated to Ma Cho Po, goddess of the sea, it was built in the 1840s by early Hokkien immigrants from China in gratitude for safe passage to Singapore.
Unfortunately, it also unlocked the device for Brian Heater (center), our resident 900 number enthusiast, and Bianca Bosker, Huff Po's tech editor and our only other friend in the newsroom.
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Nightlife in the upscale and centrally-located 6th arrondissement, where Sciences Po is located, is also popular among English-speaking students, who hang at the international-friendly bars Frog and Princess and Moose.
The phenomenon has also proved popular in the locality, with one Hammersmith resident saying the weekly queues of uniform-wearing clubgoers outside the Po Na Na "attracted all kinds of attention".
Even his po-tential trump card, winning Kelantan back from Pas (which he failed to do in Novem-ber), is irrelevant since the next general election does not have to take place until after the next UMNO party polls in 2003.
Next arrived the famous Culatello di Zibello or regional Parma ham aged for one year along the Po River -- an area whose winter fogs and humid summers make the air unlike any other in the world, plus the local Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, aged 30 months.
Some restaurants, like the Ning Po Residents Association, require a nominal annual fee (around 200 Hong Kong dollars), but in return you gain access to excellent food (in this case, recipes from the city of Ningbo, near Shanghai, such as delicate, juicy soup dumplings and sweet-and-sour fish), in an exclusive but usually unpretentious setting.
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