Word: dang
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...know you’re worried Mr. Sixpack, but I’m here to clear up all these misconceptions about Obama. Does he kill babies? No Joe, he hunts them, and dang it Joe if you say you’re against hunting I don’t think I can call you an American. Is he going to raise your taxes? No, but he might raise Sarah Palin’s! Did Obama pal around with domestic terrorists? Maybe when he was young, but that just shows what a tough kid he was. Is he black...
...burger has been around forever ... I wanted to try to give it a facelift," says Que Vinh Dang, executive chef at Duke's Burger, (852) 2526 7062, one of latest additions to Hong Kong's SoHo dining district. He's not the only one. Designer burgers - with the foie-gras toppings, sprinkled truffles and all the rest - have been popping up on menus everywhere these past few years. And there's already a cluster of better-class burger bars in Hong Kong. But Duke's Burger is by far the smartest (and newest) of them, and it offers a menu...
...burgers cost up to $35 a pop and Duke's works hard to justify this level of charging, seating customers in plush surroundings (complete with chandeliers) and laying out Molton Brown hand soap in the restrooms. But in the end, the food manages to do the job alone. Dang's burger interpretations are very creative, and the quality of the ingredients and preparation have more in common with SoHo's better bistros than its fast food joints. The braised U.S. short-rib and truffle burger ($35) comes plated in an elegant open-faced tower of foie gras, green beans...
...Duke's gives you eight burgers to choose from, including the classic cheddar and smoked bacon ($20). It also offers a selection of salad and "fry" sides, like parmesan-and-corn fritters. With the exception of a mediocre spiked milkshake, the fare is excellent. If Dang ever decided to try his hand at cooking something besides burgers, the results promise to be just as enticing...
...American politics. It was also pretty easy to answer. The "misery index," a then popular measure that added the unemployment rate to the inflation rate, had skyrocketed during Carter's tenure. Taxes had risen sharply. There were other issues on voters' minds, like the Iranian hostage crisis and those dang cardigans Carter used to wear. But the economy was crucial to Reagan's victory. After taking office, he responded by ushering in a new era in economic policy - cutting tax rates, slashing regulation and tirelessly preaching the gospel that individual Americans were better suited to make economic decisions than bureaucrats...