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Boston's own Medieval Manor caters to the unreconstructed Viking in all of us, emphasizing the use of fingers to deal with its almost appropriately scaled repasts. But for those who want to make some attempt to recreast a Plantegenet's Christmas dinner, the past few years have brought more and more cookbooks featuring the recipes, and the dedication to excess, of our more steadfast ancestors. This year's big seller was The Medieval Cookbook by Madelaine Cosman...
...would mean ETS has been wrong all there years," John Weiss, the director of Project DETEST, an anti-testing group, said yesterday. That prospect might be enough to make ETS lean on the FTC in an attempt to stifle the report, Steve Solomon, a testing expert with the New York Public Interest Research Group said yesterday...
...SALT II agreement is now "more than 95 per cent complete" Warnke said, but he warned that "some American politicians may attempt to secure the passage of their favorite programs as the price for their support" of the accord, and the recent Soviet dispatch of 16 Mig-23 aircraft to Cuba indicates "there are also some in the Politburo who want to be bought-off as a precondition" to accepting the agreement, Warnke said...
...country, and yet ensure against abuse? On the one hand, we can underreact and simply assume that the relatively limited number of abuses in the past will not be repeated because we are more conscious of the problem today. On the other hand, we can overreact and so attempt to control potential abuses that we handcuff and handicap our intelligence effort out of business...
...inherently biased towards the interests of the wealthy. Political advertisements--those that make an overtly political argument (such as Mobil's weekly pro-business columns on the op-ed page of the New York Times)--promote the self-interested views of the advertisers. Promotional advertisements--those that attempt to sell a product or solicit a service (such as Mr. Chan's ad)--promote the material interests and values of the advertisers...