Word: ducking
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...flavor and intensity through a meal, seems conjured in Adrià's lab: breaded fois custard cream with apricot jam, baked skate with clam aioli, smoked beef with "ancient mustard" foam. In cooking as in science, not all lab experiments succeed: an unappealing appetizer of Iberian porkpie with truffled duck liver consisted mostly of morsels of fat. But considering the rich and varied fare dished out, the fact that we didn't feel bloated at the end of this meal counts as a triumph for the chef...
...world’s premier post-colonial literary theorist, Bhabha loves to entertain guests and ideas. He makes a mean shrimp with mint coriander and mango and duck with wild mushrooms for his soirees. And, he notes, “Harvard has a lot of great people to entertain...
They say that you can’t please all people all the time. But after $1,300 spent on everything—including a rubber duck-shaped underwater vibrator and vagina cupcakes courtesy of erotic bakery Sweet & Nasty—one would hope that you could please nearly everyone. Thursday’s Female Orgasm Seminar hosted by Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) received rave reviews from many attendees. Unfortunately, some members of RUS who planned the event were slightly disappointed with speaker Kim Airs. Although her off-color hijinks titillated audience members, some were offended by her heteronormative...
...says. (It's a typical problem for Asian women executives, although one that few employers recognize, says Jane Hyun, an executive coach and author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: "Here, we say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Well, there's a Chinese proverb that says the loudest duck gets shot.") At the boot camp, Ho networked with other GE executives who urged her to be more aggressive. It recently helped her land a tough assignment as chief operating officer for equipment services in China...
...another city when--or if--the Hornets started their preseason training camp. Reports of violence and looting had spread to Westwego; the team's tech guy carried a shotgun for protection. The military had taken over the facility, so to grab the supplies, Spero's crew had to duck under the few hundred rifles stored in the player's lounge. Pistols were strewn on the Ping-Pong table the players had used to pass time. Fortunately, the guns weren't loaded. How did the men know? Says Spero: "There were boxes of ammo in the weight room...