Word: criticize
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Know a good restaurant in New York City? Frank Bruni has probably dined there. For five years, the former New York Times restaurant critic ate his way through some of the best - and worst - menus the city had to offer. His meticulous, unforgiving reviews could make or break a new restaurant and the prospect of a Bruni visit regularly sent chefs into panics. But Bruni's relationship with food went beyond his day job: as he relates in his new book, Born Round, the man paid to eat had a history of eating disorders stretching all the way back...
...think that your lifelong relationship with food prepared you at all for your role as a restaurant critic? Or did it work against you? I think a little bit of both. You can't do this job without loving food in a deep and expansive way. My relationship with food was a love-hate relationship. I hated my inability to control my intake and I hated what food would do to my body, but the love part was real and deep. My family taught me that food was worth caring about and sweating over. I still believe that...
...have questioned the U.S. President's commitment to matching his rhetoric with action. U.S. officials called the latest sanctions "a strong signal" that Obama has reversed Washington's historic tendency to abide if not back coups carried out against its foes (the leftist Zelaya is a critic of the U.S.) and that he's defending democratic process in the hemisphere. (See pictures of protests against the military-backed regime of Honduras...
...already decided that Chevron is guilty - and they allegedly implicate him in a scheme to snag $3 million in bribes from firms hoping to win oil-cleanup contracts after his ruling. Also implicated are high-ranking officials in the government of leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, an outspoken critic of the U.S. (See pictures of the Amazon contamination that's at the center of the Chevron-Ecuador lawsuit...
...Whether Martino is leaving willingly or not, his departure means that one very vocal critic of the Administration has lost his bully pulpit. That may come as a relief to some within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) who have become increasingly disturbed by the politicization of some church leaders this year, most notably in protests against President Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame and the role of some church officials at Senator Ted Kennedy's funeral service and burial. (Read "After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope...