The two loved to dine together, most famously when they had a Rabelasian lunch at Filomena Ristorante in Georgetown in 1994 (presumably Kohl and Clinton are also fans of traditional English pubs).

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At meals, elders, workers and children dine together.

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But their ability to work together and fight, should Ansar Dine militants somehow evade the Franco-Malian advance, is very much in question.

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Club members own equity shares in the club and play cards and dine at the clubhouse with their neighbors, many of whom moved to the community together from up north.

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