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Leader tells his students not to worry about perfection. But for others, seeking it is the whole point. A large contingent of artisanal home bakers will settle for nothing less than flawless, golden-hued, crackling crusts and varied-textured interiors that evoke the rustic bounty of Tuscan villages and French boulangeries. "There's a big difference between a pretty good loaf and a fabulous loaf," says Atlanta-based Maggie Glezer, author of A Blessing of Bread: Jewish Bread Baking Around the World (Artisan; 352 pages). A beginning baker producing a baguette, she concedes, "probably won't get those gorgeous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heavenly Loaves | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...1980s, Democrats used to get accused of Blaming America First—siding with some socialist guerilla, U.N. potentate or foreign interest group against this country’s flawless Cold War policy of bloody right-wing coups, and freedom and democracy...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: The Democrats' Innovation Gap | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...entire first half of Scissor Sisters is nearly flawless, and impressively diverse too. There's an exuberant dance cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb that sounds like New Order fronted by Andy Gibb. Tits on the Radio is a disco-funk rant about the cultural sterilization of New York City. What keeps the whole thing from turning into an orgy of deja vu is Shears. As he struts his way through the material, he radiates a completely original kind of magnetism. He's sexual, commanding and totally goofy--like a man who can't believe his hairbrush and mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out on the Camp Trail | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

With Harvard up 27-0 at Cornell’s Schoellkopf Field, Fitzpatrick and the nation’s top offense were just mopping up yet another blowout win, minutes away from improving to a flawless 4-0 start...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Injuries Plague Football's Ivy Title Hopes | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...flawless damage control, and the White House was helped, perversely, by the ghastly death of Nicholas Berg, an American entrepreneur free-lancing in Iraq who was beheaded on-camera by a man the CIA believes to be Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Berg's death reset the moral-equivalence meter and reminded the world who the enemy is. U.S. officials said privately they could not believe that the terrorists had such a poor grasp of public relations. Between the prison scandal and Berg's death, it was easy to imagine that the war for Iraq's hearts and minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Moment Of Reckoning: Collateral Damage | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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