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Let Them Eat Caviar

Dec 21, 2008
Some needy denizens of Milan will be served a rare delicacy this holiday season, after Italian customs officials seized about 88 pounds of beluga caviar from smugglers trying to sneak it in from Poland. The loot -- worth over half a million dollars -- was donated to feed the Milanese poor.