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...Recipes (Phaidon) In this definitive book on Spanish cuisine by its foremost authority, Simone Ortega, you'll find everything from paella to flan...
Awareness programs have done a lot to promote acceptance of those affected by AIDS, but experts say we're still far from making the real changes in cultural attitudes and practices that can impact the epidemic. Foremost among such cultural roadblocks is the role of women, who, in many developing societies, are economically dependent on their spouses and don't often demand that they practice safe sex. Dr. Geeta Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women, notes that women bear the heaviest burden of AIDS around the world. "Women still have problems discussing safe sex with their...
Kathleen Spivack has been recognized as one of the foremost poets of her generation. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and her work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker and Harper’s. “Moments of Happiness,” her first poetry collection since 1986’s “The Beds We Lie In,” was released on Nov. 10, exclusively through Cambridge’s Grolier Poetry Book Shop. The Harvard Crimson: This is your first book since 1986—that?...
...Since defecting to the government in 1996, Ieng Sary has regularly denied any knowledge of the regime's policies of extermination. Ieng Thirith has been even more vocal: several years ago, she made a withering written attack on Youk Chhang, Cambodia's foremost genocide researcher, claiming his years of research into the alleged crimes of Khmer Rouge regime had found not a shred of incriminating evidence and that his work was nothing "but lies and defamation...
...which is racked with problems. In the process, according to seven former and current staffers, he is alleged to have censored politically embarrassing reporting, which many argue has helped obscure the corrosive effect of widespread corruption in Iraq. "One consistent element in these allegations is that you believe your foremost mission is to support the Bush Administration, especially with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than act as an independent and objective check on waste, fraud and abuse on behalf of U.S. taxpayers," said Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has an ongoing...