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...index, but unlike most standard cookbooks, it can also be appreciated as a narrative by reading front-to-back, letting the flavors and insights unfold over the course of 13 chapters. The pages are peppered with dozens of photographs of the region and its people, and with playful cartoons drawn by Reynaud's close friend, José Reis de Matos. The visuals complement the chatty, engaging voice of the author as he introduces some of his accomplices: Aimé, the "prince of the art of cutting up the carcass"; Bibi, the bistro owner with a "paunch as welcoming...
...Tsang doesn't need any. The 62-year-old is running for a second term as Chief Executive-the strangely apt title for the head of Hong Kong's government. But the vote is restricted to the 800 members of an electoral college who are drawn from assorted business, professional and social groups. Most of them tend to bend whichever way the wind from Beijing is blowing. And, these days, it is blowing in Tsang's favor. Though he is facing a challenger from the city's democratic camp-lawyer and lawmaker Alan Leong-Tsang already commands 641 nominations from...
...expensive city. With a bunch of carrots selling for $10, a box of eggs fetching $13 and rent on a medium-sized house touching $6,000 a month, it's still comfortably in the top 10. The reason? Port Gentil is a ville petrolier, an oil town that has drawn rig workers and executives from places as far away as Texas, Aberdeen and Caracas to earn fortunes pumping Gabon's oil reserves - and spend it like there's no tomorrow...
...know as many voters as they could on as personal a level as possible. Without a protracted process that allows candidates time to actually meet with members of the voting public, voters make less informed decisions, forced to rely on media soundbites instead of actual engagement with nominees. A drawn-out primary schedule also tempers disparities between campaigns’ war chests. With the old system, a lesser-known candidate had time to build momentum in the first primaries and translate that momentum into donations that would allow them to be competitive in larger states. Candidates were also forced...
...While such allegiance has its merits, it does begin to fray amid a long, drawn-out war. Rumsfeld notoriously refused to see the forces arrayed against the U.S. as guerrillas - when even his military commanders were using the word. Then he refused to agree that a civil war was ravaging the country. All the bickering did was to give his Washington foes a fat, juicy target to criticize - and his attitude curbed the military's enthusiasm to explore new and different ways of grappling with the growing insurgency, Pentagon officials...