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...when Sedaris read aloud on NPR from The SantaLand Diaries, a prickly extended sketch about working at Macy's as a Christmas elf. A book contract for a collection of essays followed. In Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever and Naked, Sedaris found a persona and a groove as a chain-smoking, movie-obsessed, gay misfit who got dark laughs from his mother's bout with cancer, from a painful sojourn at a nudist colony and from his fumbled sexual awakening at summer camp. "What are you," screams a counselor in I Like Guys, "a bunch of goddamned faggots...
Having apprenticed in France, Keller produces cooking that is very French, though he insists that it's American. His ingredients are American, he says, as are his ideas. He eats at In-N-Out, the California burger chain. The salmon canape was inspired by a night at Baskin-Robbins, when he looked at his cone in a new way. His signature dessert, coffee and doughnuts (cappuccino semifreddo, a flavored mousse, topped with steamed milk, accompanied by cinnamon-sugar doughnuts) was thought up one panicked late night at a doughnut shop when he was poor and struggling and desperate to impress...
...what the word means. To throw out the word itself would be to dishonor all the women who have gone before us. We need to reclaim, invigorate and update the word. If I have learned anything from all the great feminists before me, it's that this is a chain and we just keep widening the circle...
...Despite the capability of today's most advanced machines, human intelligence - spies on the ground, as well as analysts who are able to make sense of raw data - remains the indispensable link in the counter-terrorism intelligence chain. "It's a really sophisticated form of intelligence," retired Army General Dennis Rimer said Friday. "You can't pick this up from satellites. The only way to do it is to penetrate some of these organizations...
...acts of terror took place hundreds of miles outside Boston, but the horrible chain of events appears to have begun at the local airport...