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...Congress on a field trip last week, lingering at the exhibit of “American Treasures” long after the others had moved on. Thomas Jefferson, after returning from a trip to France, wrote down this recipe for his favorite light, airy French cookies so his cook could make them to serve with ice cream. The culinary cravings of a founding father are profoundly more touching to me than any 30-by-34-foot banner, even one that flew over Fort McHenry...
Maybe Maguire is a control freak because he never had much control over things as a kid. His parents were 18 and 20 when they had him, and split up two years later. Dad was a cook; Mom was a secretary. Maguire grew up ping-ponging between them, moving from state to state. Often he was so nervous he threw up in the morning before school. Then everything changed. He was in junior high, and his mom wanted him to take a drama class. She bribed him with $100. After that, it was commercials--his first onscreen performance...
...Most damaging for Blair - and by extension, Bush - is that these are not the allegations of antiwar outsiders pouncing on the failure of coalition forces to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; Claire Short and Robin Cook were both informed insiders privy to at least some of Blair's insider information until shortly before the invasion began. And both insisted in their testimony that during their private briefings from senior British intelligence officials, it was made clear that Blair was exaggerating the threat presented by Saddam. Short claims she was told by three different senior officials that Blair...
...Christian Impact when he was a sophomore and she a first-year. By November of that year, they were a couple. This past spring break, Heck took Kenser to a friend’s wedding in his hometown of Cincinnati. After congratulating his buddy, Heck says he decided to cook up a celebration of his own. He brought Kenser a menu one morning, offering to treat her to breakfast in bed. “I think she ordered French Toast,” he says. But when Heck lifted the lid off the silver platter, he revealed a sparkling engagement...
...hate going to the local grocery store when I’m home,” Ahn says. “Tofu is still exotic there.” Even worse, although her mother is a versatile cook, her father’s more traditional “rice and kimchee” diet defined the family palate. Exposed early on to simple Midwestern tastes, Ahn was unexcited by the idea of cooking...