Though politics in Kabul were still too tender to allow street performances, especially with women actors, together they did manage to put on shows in tiny villages up north.

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Among the standards, brisket, ribs, chicken and pulled pork, the pork ribs were my favorite, almost too tender, but really capturing the smoke and dry rub flavor without being too dry.

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Like many baby boomers I married too young, proposing at the tender age of 20.

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Yakitori skewers of chicken skin and (especially) tail are succulent little delivery devices for fat. (Yakitori okra is worth trying, too.) Several dishes feature fantastically tender pork cutlet under a perfectly golden shell of panko bread crumbs.

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Karen Jennings, assistant general secretary of the public sector union Unison, is worried that the new service, once put out to tender, could be target-driven meaning some patients are forced back to work too early.

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