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Indeed, many are perplexed and even annoyed by how seriously a cappella members seem to take their craft...
American humorist Josh Billings once said, "Remember the poor, it costs nothing." The quip sounds close to the apparent sentiment among G-7 economic policymakers who met in Washington over the weekend to craft measures aimed at bailing out Western banks amid the global financial crisis...
...publisher could craft a more sterling publicity campaign to launch Charles D. Ellis' saga of Goldman Sachs than Wall Street has for the past three months. Proving, yet again, that there's no such thing as bad publicity, the white-knuckle drama being played out in today's market offers a scarily fitting backdrop for Ellis' ambitious and absorbing tale of men (no women), money, ambition and redemption. It is, he writes, the saga of a company and its people "with unusual strengths [whose] aspirations were not on what they wanted to be, but on what they wanted...
...preserving French cuisine can be interpreted to mean embalming Coq au Vin, cryofreezing Beef Bourgogne, and xenophobically protecting French gastronomy from any outside influence. But it can also, equally, mean protecting a craft, ensuring the transmission of the knowledge of French culinary techniques—Escoffier’s tricks for making stocks, the proper way to deglaze a pan—and saving endangered produce and small businesses from extinction. Since none of this year’s proposals has been revealed to the public yet, it is difficult to know the French’s exact intentions amidst...
...something. We should take this opportunity, outlandish though it may seem, to reconsider our definition of the ICH and to work gastronomy into that definition. We have to assume that their fight is not about the superiority of French cuisine, but about having gastronomy recognized as an art, a craft in its own right...