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...Obama's history is any guide, losses tend to speed him up, not slow him down. As a state senator in 2000, he took on the Cook County machine to challenge a sitting four-term Congressman and lost - a pre-emptive strike against the political establishment and a cocky signal that he wasn't going to wait his turn. Valerie Jarrett, a friend and now a top adviser, recalls hosting a small brunch at her house at the end of 2002, when Obama was weighing a bid for the U.S. Senate. "It was Michelle, Barack, myself and maybe...
...least Currier House is a friendly place.” Several fellow Currierites stop to chat with Sengeh as he sits outside the dining hall. And being so far away from home has its own small, practical problems. “Sometimes you really miss mom’s cooking,” says Dlamini. Luckily, thanks to several sizeable ethnic populations in the Boston area, it’s possible for students of many backgrounds to find a decent restaurant or grocery store which meets their needs. But some international students don’t have this luxury. Often...
...months the sticker shock has grown much worse. Wheat prices have jumped by more than 20% since November, driven up by rising global prices as well as local hoarding ahead of the election and wheat smuggling into neighboring Afghanistan. The price of the gas that many Pakistanis use to cook with has also skyrocketed. January's inflation rate was nearly 12%, the highest in almost three years...
...invention of new kitchen equipment became Arnold's consuming quest after he graduated from Yale and got a master's in art at Columbia University and was living illegally in an artist's studio in Manhattan. Arnold loved to cook but had only a hidden dorm fridge and a hot plate. When he didn't get caught by the landlord, he amped it up, adding a meat slicer and a deli case. "But nothing is like having a commercial deep fryer," he says. "That's a life changer...
When I was thirteen, my dad and my brother Jay went on a road-trip with Jay’s all-star little-league baseball team. My mom doesn’t know how to cook (there was the particularly memorable night when she tried to make “three-cheese” pasta, which ended up congealed at the bottom of the pot and licked by our cat who had a penchant for cheddar), so instead she ordered a large pizza with artichoke hearts from Pizza-A-Go-Go. I hadn’t seen Shakespeare in Love...