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...cuisine on par with its francophone neighbors, and mentored both Gordon Ramsay and Mario Batali. He's also the same bellicose boss who made Ramsay shed tears, ejected restaurant patrons for minor misbehavior and staged kitchen tirades involving flying pots and pans. His latest venture is hosting The Chopping Block, a new culinary reality show that debuts March 11 on NBC. The competition gives two teams of four couples the task of running neighboring restaurants in New York, and awards the winning pair $250,000 to fund their own place. TIME talked to White about sacking (aka firing) the losers...
...there a presumption that the contestants have a high base level of skill. I met 10 couples, who turned up on the stage of Chopping Block with a dream. And that dream was to win a restaurant. There are a lot of people out there who've run very successful restaurants who don't know how to cook. There's more to a restaurant than a plate of food, my love. And when you give someone a restaurant as a prize, it's not just a prize, it's a responsibility...
...Treasury Department is looking into purchasing those assets, whether through a public-private partnership or through some other mechanism. Part of the stumbling block is price. Paying more than the banks are able to say the assets are worth would certainly lead to criticism that the government is providing another massive handout to the banking industry...
...Harvard started the match off firing on all cylinders, setting the tone on the first play of the game with a block by junior setter Gil Weintraub. With the set tied, 13-13, freshman sensation Matt Jones got comfortable on the outside by slamming down kill after kill, igniting a run that gave the team a 21-13 lead...
...hard to populism. He has held hearings on credit-card abuses and introduced stringent legislation to prevent companies from luring consumers into dangerous amounts of debt. Last October, Senate majority leader Harry Reid took the unusual move of overriding a Democratic hold on a bill after Dodd tried to block an extension of President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping powers over concerns from the left about granting telecom giants retroactive immunity for working with the Administration. Most notably, Dodd, against the wishes of the White House, slipped into the stimulus bill tough limits on compensation for Wall Street firms...