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...reputation precedes him across the Atlantic. In the U.K., he's the boy genius who earned a trio of Michelin stars by 33, put the country's 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...
...senior vice president. There, she worked alongside many current SEAS faculty.“I have to disclose everything,” said Federico Capasso, a professor of applied physics at SEAS who served on the advisory committee for the SEAS dean search. “She was my boss at Bell Labs, and partly because I know her so well, I think she’s an absolutely terrific choice from every angle.”After working at Bell, Murray went to the Lawrence Livermore National Labs in 2004, a nuclear security laboratory managed by Lawrence Livermore National...
President Barack Obama isn't as great as he thinks he is. To be fair, neither were Presidents Bush or Clinton - or Washington or Lincoln, for that matter. The same can be said for every general who ever commanded an army or every boss who ever ran an office. The fact is, if there's one thing that defines people in powerful positions, it's that they overestimate what they can do with that power...
...next few weeks the North launches what it terms a "satellite intended for peaceful purposes" - in truth, a long-range missile capable of reaching Alaska - it will be the North's most provocative act since it tested a nuke in the autumn of 2006. Bosworth and, earlier, his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have already beseeched the Chinese to intervene with the North, and diplomats in Seoul say that Beijing has done so. If Pyongyang ignores that counsel, says Victor Cha, former director of Asian affairs on President Geroge W. Bush's National Security Council, the Obama Administration will...
...staffers who may come under scrutiny in the Leahy and Feinstein investigations, there's some consolation in the fact that their new boss is in their corner. Former Congressman and Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta has promised to cooperate with Congress, saying, "I think that we have a responsibility to be transparent on these issues and to provide them that information." But during his confirmation hearings by Feinstein's Committee, Panetta made it clear he doesn't support the prosecution of CIA staff involved in detention and interrogation of terror suspects, saying they were simply following guidelines...