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...Indian at all. A connoisseur of Indian cuisine might, indeed, consider it an absurdity: tikka (oven-roasted meat), is meant to be eaten without masala (gravy). This oxymoronic creation dates back to the fateful moment when a long-suffering Indian chef in Britain grew tired of explaining the basic facts about the tikka to his barbaric customers, mixed Campbell's tomato soup with some spices and gave them the gravy they craved. The result was magic, at least to British palates...
...prices and growing concern over sustainable energy have made them the hottest stocks in the tech-heavy Taiwan Stock Exchange. Motech and E-Ton Solar make photovoltaic (PV) semiconductors, better known as solar cells. Sino-American is in the business of supplying them with silicon wafers, which are the basic PV building blocks. And shares of all three have delivered stellar gains thanks to the world's growing appetite for solar power as a hedge against the high price of crude...
...retain your trust and our credibility, we have to do two things. Most basically, we have to ensure readers trust that what they are reading in our pages is fact, not fiction. I believe our industrious and assiduous reporters, backed by the paper’s 133-year legacy, ensure that most readers do pick up the paper each morning with a basic assumption of truth. But the peaceful slumbers of complacency are never far off, and I hope this column will provide us with a bi-weekly opportunity to recommit ourselves to the truth...
...Helen Pickett’s “Etesian” introduces the evening of dance. Though perhaps the most innovative of the four, with its random interludes of silence and truly modern movements, it is also the most technically lacking performance, often danced without basic unison. The muted mood often tries to substitute dramatic lighting and set design for technical dance. Despite a false start and some occasionally shaky ensemble work at their March 17 performance, the company looked the most stylistically comfortable and vehemently committed in Jorma Elo’s “Plan...
This same argument mandates that HUDS should provide some basic standard of quality. There is no reason why food quality has to be a zero sum game. I shouldn’t have to go to Pinocchio’s to get a cheese steak because the HUDS food was so repulsive that I felt it was worth a splurge. By improving the lowest common denominator, HUDS would be fulfilling their mission better than they would by improving the best few meals of the year...