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...Canadian geophysicist who owns Terra Seis. That wasn't too surprising in Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn to a slick black film in the gnawing winter cold. Sitting cross-legged on his living-room carpet over a lunch of mutton, village chief Tahir Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday create wealth for us." The locals were unimpressed. "All we knew was that the sheep and cows kept getting stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race to Tap The Next Gusher | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...violence continues in Baghdad. Large oil finds in the territory "would bolster the sense on the street that the Kurds can survive on their own," says the Western consultant who did not want to be named. Tawke's residents are focused on more basic problems these days. Over the mutton, Normann asks Omar, the chief, and the rig's star worker, Khadir, how the company can help the villagers. Omar says they need a water well and 50 desks for the tiny village school. Away from the chief, Normann says he knows that such goodwill can help secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race to Tap The Next Gusher | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...always reject the analysis. You’ve read it, you enjoy it, you can ignore what the professor has to say.”Those who do possess these tools then affect an amused detachment from whichever genre inter-ests them. By contrast, the guy with the mutton chops and the Whitesnake t-shirt, though he may love his hair metal, doesn’t really “understand” it.For Teskey, this is the study of pop culture at its worst. “I don’t think that being amused at your amusement...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Clash Over New Classics | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

When everyone was tired, cranky, and cracked out (like Achilles?), Caitlin and Kelly delivered beautiful pages (like Ceres?) to shroud our oft-shoddy content (like Sibyl?). Every week, they dressed mutton (arnea) as lamb (amnos). We can’t say thank you enough...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Annie M. Lowrey, and Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: War-Torn Warriors | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...ultimate expression of which is the delicate Kakori kebab, a cigar-shaped delight produced in a hamlet of that name half an hour's drive from Lucknow. Local legend says it was created for a toothless prince, and it's easy to see why. Made from finely ground mutton, infused with cloves, cinnamon and other spices, the Kakori is so soft it just melts on your tongue. Slide your fork under the kebab and lift: it should be so delicate that only the section directly under the fork rises. The finest Kakori may be found at Tundey Ke, a Lucknow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amuse-Bouche | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

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