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...Volta, which is now defunct, Batali learned the basics--handmade pastas; slowly cooked Bolognese sauce; wild mushrooms, greens and berries foraged from the forest floor and served nearly unadorned the same day. In 1993, when Batali helped launch his first restaurant, Pò, he brought that unaffected Italian sensibility to downtown Manhattan. (He also needlessly added an accent mark to the name of Italy's Po River.) "He was doing some things so simple--things like affogato, which is gelato [Italian ice cream] with a shot of espresso in it. It's a classic in Italian restaurants, but I had never...
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Vultaggio prefers the forklift to the corner office because he is more at home on the warehouse floor. "Some may call that micromanaging," says Vultaggio of his hands-on approach. "I don't know what that is. To me, it's just normal...
Then came something that McCain had even less reason to expect. With hundreds on the Capitol Plaza chanting "Let our people stay!" the Senate Judiciary Committee last week gave its imprimatur to legislation very much like the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill and sent it on to the Senate floor, where it stands a good chance of passing...
...disrupt a steady supply of cheap labor for the agriculture, construction, hotel and restaurant industries, among others. That's why business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to send its bill to the Senate floor, with four of the committee's 10 Republicans joining all its Democrats in favor. So doubtful had been the outcome that there were gasps in the hearing room when Republican chairman Arlen Specter cast the final vote for it himself, giving the legislation extra momentum as it heads to the floor...
...Kennedy hasn't won yet, but he's closing in. Last week the Massachusetts Senator gained support from Republican fence sitters, steamrollered adversaries and--to the surprise of everyone in Washington--steered to the Senate floor a bill that would make citizens of millions of illegal immigrants. His last battle to make it law is with hard-line Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives, and Kennedy, 74, is focused on gaining the sole ally who can win that fight. "There's one negotiation left, and only one," he said, sitting on a windowsill in a back hallway...