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...collide. It's radically globalized and borderless, with workers from Liberia and India and Moldova. (The hotel is called, inevitably, the Imperial.) Ali's kitchen is, like Britain, something of a muddle: "If the Imperial were a person, thought Gabe, you would say here is someone who does not know...
...stable, clear identity - race, class, history, gender - finally gets sorted out. Good and bad are not ambiguous or relative. If you're weak, you'll break down like a poorly emulsified vinaigrette, but if you can hack it, then wherever you're from, whatever language you speak, you know where and who you are and what you're doing: you're a saucier, or a sous, or a prep monkey, or a plongeur, or a chef...
...resilient, they're hardworking and they'll do what they need to do," says Naughton. "It's the uncertainty, the major decisions about where houses will be bought out and won't, where floodwalls will be and won't. People won't fight it. But they need to know so they can move on with their lives...
...feeling dizzy, that's the point. Republicans have been unified in their opposition to Obama's stimulus and his budget, but they know they risk being permanently dubbed the Party of No. Nor can they take the tack Democrats have taken in the Social Security debate: health care isn't working just fine as it is. But their solution - to simply overwhelm Washington with different ideas they know will never pass - has its downsides...
...development of a nuclear reactor that Syria was building until the Israeli air force bombed it into rubble in 2007. U.S. intelligence never has been able to identify what North Korean ships, if any, were involved in its construction. Which raises a troubling notion: North Korea's nuclear know-how may be able to elude even the tightest naval noose...