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Soon the main event begins and the arrival of the evening’s first skewer brings as much joy as the birth of a new child. The signature dish is beef sirloin, crisp on the outside, with a rich, chewy center. Most of the meat is at its best when served rare or medium rare, but each skewer can be carved at different points according to how well done the diner prefers their food. Chicken breast wrapped in bacon has a strangely similar taste: each mouthful is crunchy and salty on the outside, while the bacon fat prevents...
...isn’t exactly an educated man,” Wojciech Kubik ’07 reluctantly says of his birth country’s modern emblem, Lech Walesa, who spoke to a packed house at the Institute of Politics last week. “He is idolized [in Poland],” Kubik says, “he’s idolized, though not as much as in the international community.” Kubik, whose family sought refuge from Communist Poland in 1987, has seen his life intertwined with the political ascent of Walesa. Kubik?...
Knott has studied these animals for over 10 years in Gunung Palung National Park on Borneo, Indonesia, which is home to about one tenth of the world’s orangutan population. They are the world’s largest exclusively tree-dwelling mammal, and they have the longest birth interval—only giving birth every eight years...
...Middle East Democracy In "Lessons from the Rubble," about the bombing of the U.N. offices in Baghdad [Sept. 1], you stated that the U.S. in Iraq is "directly attempting to midwife the birth of a peaceful, democratic state that can act as a model for the Islamic world." If this is a key objective, why doesn't the U.S. start with the Palestinians? Not only have they asked for international peacekeepers, but they also want a democratic nation of their own. In terms of dollars and lives, setting up a Palestinian state would be cheap compared with the undertaking...
Throughout his life, Said was forced to defend his background—particularly in the face of criticism for his strong support for Palestinian nationalism despite his birth on what is now considered Israeli soil...