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...Jackson Pollock than a Michael McCarty. I just couldn't get the little slices of pork to form the perfect crescent that was pictured. Still, this book is a perfect distillation of the best of new American culinary inventiveness, in which old favorites get a new twist from the clever combination of other flavors. Good old soft-shell crab, for instance, gets dressed up nicely in a simple deglazing sauce made with lime juice and grated ginger, which breaks up the usual overly buttery taste of this summer treat...
Like those forebears, Saddam is by no means crazy. Rather, he is a man willing to do almost anything to get what he wants -- and he wants to dominate the Middle East much as Nebuchadnezzar once did. "He is an extremely shrewd, cold-blooded, clever thug," says a senior British diplomat who has dealt with him. "Human life means nothing to him." He plays the complex game of Middle East politics by the bareknuckle rules of the region. Says another diplomat: "He does what he thinks is expedient. He is not driven by ideology or whim. He coldly calculates every...
...work is fast, funny and damnably clever. Set behind the Iron Curtain in 1968, Increased Difficulty of Concentration, plays game with perception, chronology and language, and is classic theater of the absurd. The simple repitition of dialogues, even entire scenes, lends Havel's glimpse behind the curtain an acuity. The work is frequently and charmingly inscrutable; there are several inexplicable and subtle wardrobe changes between scenes...
...designer Tom Spalding, 41, says the machine comes in "boring beige" and in a postmodern granite finish, which he likes a lot better. "We're not a traditional vendor," says Spalding, who previously made millions in hot-tub and stereo- equipment ventures. "It's much more fun doing neat, clever designs...
...Team-B exercise. "It was forced on me by the White House," said Bush. By most accounts the President preferred abolishing PFIAB, but was eager to avoid a predicted congressional uproar. Recasting PFIAB so that its focus will probably be narrow represents the path of least resistance -- a politically clever but intellectually shortsighted move. Bush doesn't need intelligence reports that induce sleep; he needs the kind of thought-provoking analysis that can substitute...