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...beer or water at a restaurant, you're likely to get skinned; instead, demand a crème, a demi or a carafe de l'eau, as the French do. To wiggle out of a house purchase, ask your bank to deny you a mortgage. At dinner, don't commit the cheese-course gaffe of cutting the tips off Brie and Camembert wedges; instead try the fragrant Cantal, "like soft Cheddar, with a hint of athlete's foot." As a prose stylist, Clarke can't hold a cheese knife to legions of past Anglo-Saxon observers like Mark Twain...
...furious pace by the writer.? This week at the National Theatre, David Hare?s play ?Stuff Happens? begins previews. It?s about George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, whose quote (?Stuff happens? and it?s untidy, and freedom?s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.?) inspired the play?s title. Like ?The Madness,? Hare?s work ?will accommodate events as they occur.? It runs till November 6, the Saturday after Americans go to the polls. Oh to be in England, now the election?s near...
...After the Fall, a revival of a 1964 Arthur Miller play and Krause's first turn on Broadway, he plays Quentin, a man whose two marriages break under the weight of the first wife's endless hectoring and the second's endless pill popping. Along the way, two characters commit suicide. As Quentin asks at the end of the first act, "Good God, can there be more...
...student friend Madhavi Rao - who was found not guilty of being an accomplice - Garner must again resort to speculation. Relating trial accounts of two drug-laced dinner parties at the couple's home in the days before Cinque's death, where Singh declared her desire to commit suicide and take him with her, the author asks: "Did Joe Cinque have his wits about him long enough to grasp what was going on? Anu Singh must know, but she wasn't talking...
Antidrug officials say the only way to cut off al-Qaeda's pipeline is to destroy the poppy farms. U.S. military commanders have been reluctant to commit the nearly 20,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to opium eradication, fearing that doing so would divert attention from the hunt for terrorists. The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has tapped top Drug Enforcement Administration official Harold Wankel to lead an intensified drive to nail kingpins, shut down heroin-production labs, eradicate poppy fields and persuade farmers to plant food crops. If the drug cartels aren't stopped, the U.S. fears, they...