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...many ways, The Faculty Club is lessstately and more raucous than outsiders mightexpect. Take, for example, a sordid tale from itsrecent past. "We had an Era of Horse Steak,beginning in the 1940s, which is always infamous,"Coulson says. During World War II, standard redmeats--beef, pork, veal, lamb, etc.--became hardto come by, and the Club increasingly had to relyon alternative ingredients...
...early one morning for dim sum at the local hotel. It was still cool when we emerged from a heavy breakfast of pork in testines, so we decided to bike over to the amusement park. Although it was a weekday, the park, which stood next to a courthouse, was very crowded. Li Mei explained it was because everyone had come to hear the criminal sentences. "Peasant, age 21," was all I understood of the loudspeaker announcement. We walked past the crowds and bought tickets for the park. I taught my cousins how to drive bumper cars. We went or five...
...will use the science council as a virtual R. and D. lab, allowing them to reap the benefits of millions of dollars of federal science money without having to contribute a dime. Others fear that the science bureaucracy will get bigger, not smaller, making it a tempting tool for pork- minded politicians. Paul Romer, an economist from the University of California, Berkeley, questions how effective the NSTC will be at dismantling wasteful or irrelevant programs. "It will make virtually no difference," he predicts. "That spending is there because somebody who is politically powerful wants it there...
...payback time, and Clinton probably longs for the days when Presidents could buy congressional votes with old-fashioned pork. Entitlements are the true Nightmare Before Christmas, especially since Clinton's Democratic predecessors put most of them in place. The Bryn Mawr summit brings into the open a potentially divisive closed-door debate within the Administration -- whether to support new limits on the government benefits that millions of middle-class Americans...
Favorite menu item at the Kong: Subgum Mandarin Pan-fried Noodles. Hold the pork. Scallion pancakes...