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...1930s to the 1950s, and will showcase over 100 of his rarely seen images, including his often gruesome tabloid-documentarist style: murder victims sprawled on boardwalks covered with bloody drop cloths; crime-scene chalk drawings on sidewalks of bodies since removed. One can easily imagine him driving around the dark streets of New York City of old, waiting for his self-installed police radio to propel him into action. But it wasn't just crime that captured his attention: the despair and shell shock of the Depression in America and the absurd opulence of the country's postwar era both...
...session with a trip to a traditional market - not the main one most tourists visit - where we got to know local produce, taste handmade cheeses, and meet the growers who supplied our ingredients. Later, as we prepped the two dozen items for a Oaxacan mole negro (chicken in a dark-brown spicy sauce), Cabrera explained its origins. The dish was developed during the Spanish colonial era and contains ingredients from as far away as India. "My class isn't just about making recipes," she says. "I'm sharing a tradition." The experience couldn't have been more delicious...
...escape the conclusion that some European governments, and law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, have decided that torture - when it's outsourced to countries that don't play nice - isn't their problem. Or perhaps there's another explanation: Europe cooperates with - or at least tolerates - the cia's dark missions because it believes it needs to. Like the U.S., Europe's governments may have concluded that while torture is bad, terrorism is worse. The bombings in Madrid and London have put tremendous pressure on European governments to prevent another massive attack on their own soil - and that means coordinating efforts...
Garrison Keillor is the voice of America's shrinking center, a melancholy flatlands existentialist who has masked his often dark materials under a slow-spoken amiability. His Lake Wobegon stories are nearly always about the failure of ideas and ambitions that the plain and simple folks of his fictional home town are too shy, too modest, to openly admit, let alone effectively act upon...
...members of the Board also say that they were kept in the dark about Summers’ plans to resign until Feb. 21, the day of his announcement...