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...years painfully trying (and failing) to be something they’re not, Rangzen’s knows exactly what it is, and what it can do. Unlike any number of Asian-American chefs who have abandoned their heritage—and make a trendy (but mediocre) ginger smoked duck instead of the stodgy (but amazing) yakitori they’ve known forever—the cooks at Rangzen’s defy the fads, embrace their roots, and succeed...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Into Central Square | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

...that interview, Shapiro told Hughes that there was no logical reason for the postseason ban and that the presidents just didn’t want Ivy League teams participating. It seems the presidents gave the Ivy playoff decision about as much thought as whether to have steak, pheasant or duck for lunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Presidents Listen Up: Football Needs Playoffs | 11/12/2003 | See Source »

...That's great! I love that! Um...no lip liner. It makes me look like a duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Laura Linney | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...President's $87 billion funding request for Iraq, even though it was probably too much money. "That's the price we're paying because George Bush antagonized our allies and had no plan to win the peace," he says. "But we had to make a choice. I didn't duck it. I didn't play politics ... Leadership means doing what's right even when it's not easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lieberman's Honor System | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

First, a confession: despite what I may have told you in September 2001, I am not now, and never have been, Freedonian. Freedonia, as you may recall, is the fictional country Groucho Marx rules in Duck Soup; for a few weeks at the beginning of freshman year, I claimed it, with a straight face, as my homeland. Because Harvard first-years are loath to admit their ignorance, my declaration of citizenship went mostly unchallenged. Sometimes my fellow first-years, brows furrowed, would ask where Freedonia was, again, and—because these conversations generally took place over dinner in Annenberg?...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Leaving Freedonia Behind | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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