The Guardian's 2012 person of the year vote has concluded and the winner, after some rather fishy voting patterns that belied earlier reader comments on the poll, is Bradley Manning, the US whistleblower on trial for leaking state secrets.
"Looking for something fishy, something nice and slippery, gringa?" A mountainous woman, her arms elbow-deep in a basket of prawns, sniffed her fingers ostentatiously as I made my way between the overflowing food stalls in the crowded market.
"We have not tasted it, but we have smelled it and it did not smell fishy," he said.
The 50 best restaurants are chosen by a panel of 1,000 chefs, food writers and gastronomes, but Reyners says the voting process is riven with "conflicts of interest" and "cronyism" – "fishy" is the word she inevitably uses to sum it up.
One of her favourites – one of mine, too – is vitello tonnato, though I've almost stopped putting tuna in my sauce altogether and use only anchovies – they're smoother and a lot less fishy.
Yet Doug Mataconis of Outside the Beltway, like Mr Welch, smells something fishy in the union's call for an exemption.
Halley was the son of a wealthy soapmaker and he stumped up much of the cost himself.In this section What makes heroic strife I just called… A fishy tale Reprints.
The idea is simple: if a country is producing and selling something at a big discount to what others are charging, there is probably something fishy going on.Price gaps provide a quick warning system, but are a poor way to judge the full extent of subsidies, according to a 2013 book by Usha and George Haley, of West Virginia University and the University of New Haven.
On top of this the Americans are trying to block Iran's fishy-looking nuclear programme by imposing economic sanctions, both directly and through the UN Security Council.There is another school of thought.
But in spite of our billions of acres of ocean, our 94,000 miles of coast, our 3.5m miles of rivers, a full 91% of the seafood Americans eat comes from abroad...It gets fishier still.
High time Where there's smoke Everything was political No switch for Mitch Fishy tales Beyond the naughty step A bridge too far?
