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...Indian at all. A connoisseur of Indian cuisine might, indeed, consider it an absurdity: tikka (oven-roasted meat), is meant to be eaten without masala (gravy). This oxymoronic creation dates back to the fateful moment when a long-suffering Indian chef in Britain grew tired of explaining the basic facts about the tikka to his barbaric customers, mixed Campbell's tomato soup with some spices and gave them the gravy they craved. The result was magic, at least to British palates...
...Helen Pickett’s “Etesian” introduces the evening of dance. Though perhaps the most innovative of the four, with its random interludes of silence and truly modern movements, it is also the most technically lacking performance, often danced without basic unison. The muted mood often tries to substitute dramatic lighting and set design for technical dance. Despite a false start and some occasionally shaky ensemble work at their March 17 performance, the company looked the most stylistically comfortable and vehemently committed in Jorma Elo’s “Plan...
This same argument mandates that HUDS should provide some basic standard of quality. There is no reason why food quality has to be a zero sum game. I shouldn’t have to go to Pinocchio’s to get a cheese steak because the HUDS food was so repulsive that I felt it was worth a splurge. By improving the lowest common denominator, HUDS would be fulfilling their mission better than they would by improving the best few meals of the year...
...This basic comparison allows governments to decide whether the harm itself outweighs the harms inherent to preemption...
Regardless of whether one agrees with Pope John Paul II, granting Catholic Charities an exemption from this law would directly violate one of the basic principles of a civil society mandating that every citizen is subject...