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...debone the thing, and then it's an easy, two-step process to lay open the fillet so that it's ready for the grill. For the more adventurous, the book teaches the construction of a crown roast of lamb, which is fashioned from two racks of lamb, bent round and tied. A simple roasting recipe features the typical lamb seasonings of garlic and rosemary, accompanied by an elegant rice pilaf served from inside the crown roast...
Nonsense, say Steele's critics. They consider him only the latest of a small but widely publicized band of black intellectuals who have been lifted from relative obscurity by a white establishment bent on promoting any African American who publicly attacks mainstream black thinking on affirmative action and other civil rights causes. Like other black conservatives, including Crouch, Stanford economist Thomas Sowell and Harvard political scientist Glenn Loury, Steele takes a heavy verbal beating from black thinkers who argue that the mavericks are undeserving of the attention they receive. Says Martin Kilson, Harvard's first black tenured professor: "Steele...
...strapped for cash is the Soviet Union? So strapped that Moscow bent its long-standing opposition to apartheid last week by agreeing to sell $5 billion of diamonds over the next five years through an international cartel controlled by South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines. A Swiss subsidiary of De Beers will handle the sales and thus permit Moscow to deny that it is dealing directly with South Africa...
Washington's refusal to deal with Hanoi since 1975, when the last helicopter lifted off the roof of the Saigon embassy, was designed to isolate the country when it was bent on expanding its sway over its Southeast Asian neighbors. But when Vietnam withdrew the bulk of its army of occupation from Cambodia last September, it removed the last major barrier to recognition. As Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who was once national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, noted last week, "A month after Tiananmen Square, we talked to the leaders of China; we talked to Pinochet...
...icons like the Santa Fe look, sun-dried tomatoes and goat-cheese pizza have seen their day. Such ordinary pleasures as gardening, milk shakes and fried chicken and mashed potatoes are acceptable once more. Exclusive name brands no longer carry the same cachet or inspire the same hell-bent-for-leather efforts to pay for them, because nobody really expects anyone to be impressed. Says Martin Puris, chief executive of the Ammirati & Puris advertising agency in Manhattan: "The trend is pragmatism...