The cheese is drizzled with olive oil, flavoured with oregano, grilled and manageably served on a wooden skewer.

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The wafflier the piffle, the more sharply Mr Nicholson wields his skewer.

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There are 300 new items or stories a day on the site, many with headlines that skewer: "Tori Spelling's Skeleton Attends Fashion Show" was the header on one story recently.

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As a professional reporter, I had frequently had occasion to skewer Republicans, exposing the hypocrisies of the religious Right -- many of whose leaders figured prominently at the CPAC conference.

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Now whether it's some rocky island off the Canadian coast or a skewer summit of a Canadian mountain I don't know and that's what they're talking about behind the scenes.

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Though they have their differences, they all want to be reborn as tastier dumplings coated with a sweet-bean paste, and to remain side by side, as before, on the same skewer.

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Rather than working out how to skewer Mr Cameron, European leaders would do better thinking what they can offer him that might get him off the hook with his more rabid backbenchers.

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In addition to the Creative Foods lasagne, the parent firm said another of its Brakes' products, a spicy minced beef skewer had tested positive for horse DNA at between 1% and 10% levels.

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As they skewer the opposition, they can also applaud the top U.S. commander in Iraq for saying U.S. combat forces there might be reduced by two brigades this fall (and by half over 18 months).

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