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...first time out of the country, and he sounded slightly apologetic for liking Europe so much. In Paris, he celebrated his job with Rove by trying escargot. It was different, he told me. “I’m a Texan, you know, I like to eat cow.” Caleb seems so smart and so careful about what he says that I wasn’t sure how to interpret all this down-home-boy stuff. It felt a little performative. I knew he was from Texas; he didn’t have to remind me every...
...answer those questions. Regarding origins, I think you can say [they are all wrong.] The world was not created in six days and God rested on the seventh. It was not created in the churnng of a giant pot. Or the sparks unleashed by the udders of a giant cow against the boulders of a a gigantic chasm. And regarding 'how shall we live,' I don't want answers that come from some priest." (Read "Salman Rushdie, Asian Hero...
...market. In the end, he buys two impressive looking animals for 17,000 Kenyan shillings each (around $220), well above the normal price. The implications of Barack Obama's rise will be discussed for years. But for Malik, one lesson is already clear: Don't buy a cow on the day your half-brother is expected to be elected President of the United States...
...name it, I’ve probably eaten it—or at least thought about eating it. I’ve gobbled my share of pigs’ trotters, chicken feet, and cow stomach, only to reach for seconds. I’ve nibbled pickled jellyfish and chomped on wild boar. Squeamishness, clearly, is not something I’ve been accused of. But John Barlow’s latest food travelogue, “Everything But the Squeal,” rarely fails to turn my stomach—and I suspect he’d take this...
However, analysts say that for Calderon to be able to touch the sacred cow of Mexican oil at all is a major advance, which could open the door to deeper changes in the following years in Mexico, the third biggest supplier of crude to the United States after Canada and Saudi Arabia. "The law creates a very important framework on which more regulations can be developed," said energy analyst David Shields. "It allows for contracts with foreign companies that can be much more flexible than anything we have seen before...