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INCLUDE_VIRTUAL /time/europe/s_tga/include/tga_tout.htm] One of the coolest drinks in Athens this summer is the ouzo frappé, created by New York chef Jim Botsacos. Pour a shot of ouzo and a few drops of coffee liqueur (Botsacos uses Tia Maria) into a shaker. Add half a teaspoon of instant coffee, some whole milk (or cream) and ice. Shake vigorously, strain into a martini glass, top with sprinkles of coffee and brown sugar, and enjoy. Botsacos, a Greek-Italian-American who will be in Athens for the Games to serve up Olympic meals at the Hotel Grande Bretagne on Constitution Square...
Kerry talks all the time about the lessons he learned in Vietnam but rarely about what he did there. The story of how he saved Green Beret Jim Rassmann from the Bay Hap River under fire in 1969 would never have been told if Rassmann hadn't offered to tell it--dramatically, on the eve of the Iowa caucuses. Years ago, three of the Vietnam combat veterans Kerry served with in the Senate--John McCain, Bob Kerrey and Max Cleland--told me something that Kerry had never even hinted at: that Kerry had come to their rescue on occasions when...
...vote to authorize force in Iraq--and a very different, cautious, incoherent Kerry emerged on the other side. Before long, he was sucked into that "conventional wisdom of consultants, pollsters and strategists," having hired what seemed to be several thousand of them. But it wasn't the consultants or Jim Jordan or even Howard Dean who was poisoning his campaign. It was Kerry and his utter inability to explain his vote on Iraq...
...strategists in his 2004 campaign are about a dozen like Marttila and pollster Tom Kiley who can trace their connection to Kerry all the way back to his failed 1972 campaign for Congress. Many of them had felt shut out by the first manager of Kerry's presidential campaign, Jim Jordan, which was in no small measure why Jordan was fired in November. When Senator Edward Kennedy's then chief of staff Cahill came aboard, she moved quickly into the role of gatekeeper, cutting off Kerry's back-channel contacts and ensuring that almost all communication went through her. (Cahill...
...loss of respect and dignity the U.S. suffers on the global stage because of the embarrassingly blind arrogance of its political right. At home Moore may be a thorn in Bush's side, but around the world the filmmaker's brand of honesty redeems the credibility of the U.S. JIM MARTENS Vernon...