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Americans, it seems, are just the opposite in the eyes of their international observers, almost gooey at first with their friendliness, but needing a lot of time and energy before yielding any real bite. “It’s so easy to make friends in America, unlike back home,” says Samuel M. Kabue ’06, who is from Kenya. “They are so warm and open.” But another Sam (Palmer-Amaning ’05), this time of the Polish-Ghanaian variety (his mother is the former...
Prahok, a salted, fermented fish paste, is the main ingredient in Khmer cooking, lending its pungent and musky taste to nearly every dish. Its strong aroma permeates the room at Floating Rock, but prahok’s bark is worse than its bite; the smell and taste is familiar to anyone who’s eaten the fish sauce-laden cuisines of Thailand and Vietnam. Much like these cuisines, Cambodian food uses an abundance of aromatic herbs for vibrant flavor, fresh chiles for heat and spices for complexity. Dishes are often augmented with a pinch of sugar, supplying a characteristic...
...Sauce is an extraordinary dish. Small pieces of beef are tangled with mint, three types of fresh chiles, scallions, lime juice and copious amounts of slivered lemongrass that add a tangy brightness to the meat. Tossed with ground rice (dry-fried until golden, then crushed into small bits), each bite is a study in textures. It’s irresistible and impossible to stop eating. Laap, a special that often appears on the ever-changing specials board, is similar in taste, but here the beef is minced, not sliced, and saw-tooth herb, whose taste resembles that of the more...
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Kristy Swanson's film was cute, but Sarah Michelle Gellar's series has way more bite...
...says it doesn't know how many people have paid the tax needlessly. Capital gains are taxed at a maximum rate of 20%, which, while lower than the maximum rate for income, is still a big bite. Those who have sold since 1999 and paid taxes by mistake may be able to claim a refund by filing an amended return on Form 1040X. But hurry: there's a three-year deadline for tax refunds--which in most cases means a tax filing for a 1999 home sale should be amended by April 15. Here's what the new guidelines...