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...York Times as its food editor. It has been said that this private house of his here in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of Long Island, is one of the best restaurants in the U.S. Claiborne repeats this bouquet in his new memoir-with-recipes, A Feast Made for Laughter (Doubleday; $17.95). But so light and joyous is his touch when he writes about food, and so much of the praise redirected toward his talented colleague, French Chef Pierre Franey, that his self-beguilement seems no more than just...
Despite this high official profile. Rosovsky one of the feast organizable Harvard officials because he seems pointedly to avoid contact with undergraduates. He offers guest lectures in his field of economics on occasion, but generally he stays confined within administrative circles just beyond the vision of the public. He participates on the disciplinary Administrative Board and chairs the Faculty's executive council, but decisions by these committees surely affect the College as a whole...
...veritable feast, and the 30 members of Congress who sampled the delicious spread of food on Capitol Hill last week did so to make a point: all of the fresh vegetables, fruits and meats served had been salvaged from dumpsters at local supermarkets and wholesale depots after having been discarded as unsold or unsalable...
...years ending in 1975, our per capita gross national product after inflation doubled. We were able to do it because we had the flexibility to iron out the inevitable wrinkles in the business cycle. The amendment would destroy that ability and subject us again to the feast-or-famine mercies of economic panics." Explains liberal Economist Walter Heller: "When recession cuts revenues and boosts jobless pay, the resulting deficits help restore purchasing power and promote recovery. Trying to prevent such deficits by boosting taxes and slashing budgets would simply throw the economy into a deeper tailspin...
...Muslim feast day of Id al Fitr, marking the end of the monthlong Ramadan fast. As the first light of day fell over West Beirut, families gathered in the city's cemeteries to mourn their dead. Some people quietly prayed and read the Koran beside older graves marked by marble slabs and beribboned arbors. Others wept beside the many fresh mounds of dirt, marked only by cinder blocks. Near by lay picks and shovels left by gravediggers the evening before. As a heavyset middle-aged woman dropped leafy sprigs on three fresh graves, she became hysterical and collapsed into...