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...Monday holiday brunches will feature Chicken Cordon Bleu instead of Broccoli Chicken, as that already appears every other Sunday by popular demand,†Martin wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burst of Flavor | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...Iraqi government - join Babikir in his refusal to name an enemy or tie "insurgents and death squads" to larger political movements. Col. Michael Shields' Stryker Brigade, which spent a year in Mosul, had its mission extended by four months and is now working with the Iraqi Army to cordon off and search west Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods. "We're not targeting organizations," said Col. Michael Shields. "We're targeting the threats to the security of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Iraq's Top General Walks a Fine Line Between Politics and War | 8/25/2006 | See Source »

...Unable to beard the Shi'ite lion in its den, the U.S. and Iraqi commanders have reverted to the tactics they have periodically employed - with little effect - against Sunni insurgents and terrorists in Baghdad over the past three years: cordoning entire neighborhoods, intensive patrolling, house-to-house searches, surprise raids. But at best, these measures have brought only temporary relief. Militias and insurgents know to disappear when the U.S. military arrives. Past experience shows that once the soldiers move on, the violence returns. After three days of extended curfews and intensive patrolling in Amariyah, a mainly Sunni neighborhood that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Journal: Why the U.S. Can't Stop the Killing | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

...shock, Michelle Myers--who trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, runs the patisserie Boule in Los Angeles and makes some of the best canelés and Parisian macaroons in the U.S.--approves of cupcake mania. "It crossed our minds that we put a lot of expensive ingredients and skilled technique into making canelés, and they're the same price as cupcakes," she says of what artisanal bakeries have discovered is the most profitable dessert not made by Hostess. But Myers also loves being transported to her childhood via the American madeleine. She not only buys cupcakes but also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Cupcake Nation | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...What was happening behind that impenetrable cordon of destruction reached Beirut mainly as rumors. Even reaching the area just north of the Litani was fraught with hazard. Leaflets dropped on Beirut by Israeli aircraft on Monday morning warned Lebanese to avoid traveling along the roads north of Sidon, the seaport midway between Beirut and Tyre. That necessitated an arduous and time-consuming detour high up in the cloud-smothered Chouf mountains, complicated Monday by the choking line of northbound vehicles carrying tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the violence further south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Cut Off and Under Siege in South Lebanon | 7/18/2006 | See Source »

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