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...Taliban's reign, the religious police would beat women who were seen on the street without a male relative - an impossible demand to meet for the millions of women widowed by the civil war - and would thrash men who did not pray five times a day or keep their beard at the proper length. Afghan officials have said the new department - which was approved by the cabinet last month and is pending approval by parliament - would be a kinder, softer version of its Taliban predecessor and would not enforce such harsh penalties for moral transgressions. Instead, the organization would mirror...
...must mark written work within 24 hours. They're given a lot of latitude on how to teach and are well paid - two-thirds earn over $72,000, plus housing - but they're also expected to coach athletic teams and help with extracurricular activities. French and Spanish teacher Tim Beard says, "Your priority all day long is working to make things easier and better for the boys." Percy Harrison, head of science, says: "I see my family at breakfast and at dinner. I'm often working to 10 or 11 at night; and so is everyone." The admissions director, William...
When Overton or one of the R&D chefs has a new idea in mind, Okura usually begins in his cookbook library, consulting cooking bibles such as Escoffier and Larousse Gastronomique and masters ranging from Julia Child and James Beard to Thomas Keller and Wolfgang Puck. "If David suggests something from Thailand or Argentina or Costa Rica," Okura says, he will talk to chefs with that expertise. "We will get to the core of any cuisine, any culture." Okura and his chefs may experiment with abandon, but they have a deep appreciation for the rules they're breaking...
...crazy." But Goin has roused the L.A. food scene with her restaurants Lucques and A.O.C. (which stands for appellation d'origine contrôlée, a French guarantee that a product was made in a certain area). Last month Goin was named best chef in California by the distinguished James Beard Foundation, which also named her 2005 book, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, best professional cookbook...
...after his family’s loss of its Louisville media empire in 1986, Bingham refocused his life.At Bingham’s funeral on April 6, Rev. Alfred R. Shands of the Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville delivered the homily. “With your mustache and straggly beard you were Don Quixote on horseback, heroic, dreaming the impossible dream, sometimes tilting at windmills, yes, but fighting for causes, slaying dragons.â€Until near the end of his life, Bingham rose each day at 5:45 a.m. to row his single—the cheapest that could...