Around the corner is the Olive Tree, an authentic kosher restaurant with a modern, upmarket ambience.
The centre-left Olive Tree coalition is more popular than it has ever been.
Drew Barrymore picked Olive (Latin, olive tree) for her daughter, a shorter, quirkier alternative to the popular Olivia.
All the same, the Olive Tree is showing signs of fatigue, which is why Mr Prodi's days may indeed be numbered.
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He dislikes the notion that the Olive Tree could itself become a party and concentrates on strengthening the ex-communist branch of it.
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The Federation subsidizes Olive Tree Initiativeorganized tours of Israel for Jewish students.
Now Mr Prodi has detached a good part of that front and gone off with it and its Olive Tree symbol to growing public approval.
The Refounded Communists have been uncomfortable partners for the government ever since the Olive Tree coalition won the general election of April 1996.
As voting day approaches, Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right House of Liberties coalition is maintaining a clear lead in opinion polls over Francesco Rutelli's centre-left Olive Tree Alliance.
In Orange County, California, intra-communal rancor is growing over the local Jewish Federation's financial and organizational support for University of California at Irvine's Olive Tree Initiative.
The new gang is about to hop on a train for a round-Italy tour to promote Democrats for the Olive Tree, as the new outfit is called.
His moment came in 1995 when he helped Mr Prodi launch the Olive Tree, gathering ex-communists, leftish Catholics, greens and a sprinkling of socialists in its shade.
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Most important, the Olive Tree's internal polls show that it could win an election even without the help of the Refounded Communists, who might be all but wiped out.
Here even the two varieties of proclaimed Communists differ: the Italian Communists (who are part of the moderate Olive Tree Coalition) find excuses for him, the Refounded Communists (who are not) condemn him.
Or, most likely of all, he could ask Massimo D'Alema, the leader of the Democrats of the Left, the main branch of the ruling Olive Tree coalition to try to form a government himself.
Mr Prodi, whose own centre-left alliance, known as the Olive Tree, won the 1996 general election in cahoots with the unreformed ex-communists, is said to be bitter that Mr D'Alema snatched his job without winning an election.
The thinking was that he would formally take up the leadership of the opposition when his European job ends in November, and then lead a broad coalition rather like 2001's Olive Tree into the next Italian general election, due by 2006.
When the singer Luther Vandross was charged with manslaughter after his best friend died in a car accident with Vandross driving, L. Peter Parcher, "lawyer to the stars, " devised a slick defense: An olive tree had dropped its slippery nuggets precisely where the crash occurred on Hollywood's Laurel Canyon Boulevard.
The Mediterranean diets pushed either olive oil or tree nuts in addition to fatty fish, beans, tomato sauce, white meat and wine (for those already habitually drinking).
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Fourteen hours after their initial descent, the two tree-sitters, a male and a female who goes by the name "Olive, " left their tree-top roosts after speaking with Celaya.
First you pick a specific tree from one of over a dozen olive groves scattered across the eastern coast of central Italy, in the Le Marche and Abruzzo regions.
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