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...streets. The penang assam laksa is one: a tangy fish broth flavored with turmeric and chili pepper, with vegetables and rice noodles. But the show-stealer is the dessert called kuih, sticky rice cakes flavored with leaves from the tropical screwpine tree. Sometimes Nyonya's fusion creates confusion; a crestfallen customer recently asked: "You don't serve sushi?" But with food this good for less than $15 a dish, Londoners are happily catching on. No reservations. tel: (44-207) 243 1800; www.nyonya.co.uk
...course, practically no one was listening. It was like Nero offering a brilliant water-and-sewage plan for Rome in the midst of the fire. The Bush Iraq policy lay shattered in tiny pieces; the President seemed crestfallen in his public appearances. Indeed, Kerry's message discipline--broken by occasional, measured responses to reporters' questions about the war--almost seemed a clever way to avoid the issue. His audiences waited in vain for a passionate response to the Iraq debacle...
...reason I am crestfallen, then, is Freinberg’s painfully mistaken belief that “we confuse true intellectual enlightenment with Harvard-style academics at our peril.” For him, apparently Harvard means “facile response papers, mandatory section participation and finals where students spew professors’ own words back at them (or, more likely, at teaching fellows),” which “squelches independent thought.” In sum, Freinberg complains that watching “Jeopardy!” is more educational and more fun than his section...
Gross helped introduce Clayburgh to the rough-and-tumble life of a math wonk, referring her to three female colleagues of his so she could get an idea of what it was like for a woman in academia. When she visited them, Gross says, the movie star was crestfallen to learn that female professors in the male-dominated field of math weren’t as confident and commanding as the role Bergstein had written...