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...revelations gave the Times a hard shove into the company of the nation's other great but occasionally humbled papers: the Boston Globe, whose columnists Mike Barnicle and Patricia Smith resigned in 1998 after charges of serial plagiarism; the Wall Street Journal, whose financial columnist R. Foster Winans was convicted on 59 counts of conspiracy and fraud in 1985 for using his articles to make money in the stock market; and the Washington Post, which had to return the 1981 Pulitzer Prize won by reporter Janet Cooke for the haunting story of Jimmy, the 8-year-old heroin addict...
...deboning and flambeing at the table. In Chicago and Los Angeles, retro restaurants are making Caesar salads, filleting Dover sole, carving roast beef and sauteing steaks right in the dining room. Patrons at New York City's Patroon are treated to a dramatic flambeed steak Diana and flaming bananas Foster. And at Terrance Brennan's Seafood & Chop House, also in New York City, breakfast is enlivened by the table-side preparation of steel-cut oatmeal or creamy scrambled eggs with lobster, black truffles, smoked salmon and osetra caviar. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...Arab leadership, much also depends on American leadership. With hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops actually occupying an entire Arab country, it is hard for Washington to pretend that it does not have the power to influence decisive change elsewhere in the region. It will have to help foster democracy in Iraq and not embed American puppets in Baghdad. But it will also have to midwife a settlement in the Holy Land that is truly fair to Palestinians as well as Israelis...
Sherwood says it could also foster a stronger sense of connection between those on stage and those back stage, “bridging the actor-techie...
Mary Anne Kendall “MAK” Mitchell was superintendent of Shoreline School District in Shoreline, Wash. and is currently Director of Community Learning for the Seattle Washington Public Schools. She serves on the board of Treehouse, an organization that provides education and other services to foster children...