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...late-blooming gourmet, Kuleto, 55, first got into the restaurant business through the service entrance. He started as a busboy, waiter and cook, then worked as a contractor. When business got slow, he offered to design some steak houses for free if the owner let him build them. Despite a lack of formal training, the burly carpenter had an intuitive feel for creating dramatic, bustling environments that complemented rather than competed with the food. By the time his '50s-style Fog City Diner (in his home base of San Francisco) caught critics' eyes in 1984, Kuleto had thrown away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food / The Scene Setter: Make Room For the Food! | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...yammering classes keep comparing this situation to 1960, and keep citing Richard Nixon's supposedly selfless decision not to challenge John Kennedy's almost invisible and highly dubious margin of victory in Cook County, Illinois. Selfless maybe. Some said it was the prospect of counter-challenges to Republican votes in downstate Illinois that deterred Nixon - along with knowledge that if he challenged the result, it would both tear the nation apart and forever end his political career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Injection of Lawyers Will Harm the Nation | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

...think he brought up a lot of points that are often overlooked," said B.U. first-year Leslie Cook, who voted by absentee ballot. "I didn't vote for Nader, but I wish...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood and David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Nader Hopes for 5 Percent Vote | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

...abundant. A great soundtrack featuring Destiny's Child and plenty of '70s hits is a bonus. The Angels kick ass with style using the ancient and venerated method of cleavage display. When they're not fighting, the Angels are less exciting and a load less capable. Alex can't cook, Natalie walks into a wall and Dylan falls for the wrong guys. So much for my hope that the girls would be as well equipped mentally as they were with semi-automatic weapons...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: That '70s Show: 'Angels' Ride Again | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...kind of surprised by [the results of the study], since it seems like not that many people at Harvard use marijuana," Cook said. "It's obviously here but it doesn't have nearly as much of a presence as alcohol...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Finds Marijuana Use Up on Campuses | 11/1/2000 | See Source »

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