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...close contact with his employees. When the air conditioning broke down, he dashed out to buy Good Humors for the entire staff ... FS&G's authors seem glad to forgo the ritual overpriced lunch (Straus takes writers to modest neighborhood restaurants) for the opportunity to work closely with underpaid four-star editors. [Scott] Turow, who turned down a proffered $275,000 advance elsewhere to take $200,000 at FS&G, says the house's cachet 'made it an honor to take less money...
Even by the ambitious standards of American four-star dining, moto, the madcap Chicago experiment of chef Homaro Cantu, is a strange restaurant. Eating there is like dropping into an upscale restaurant with the Jetsons. Crab chowder consists of a tiny but menacing soft-shell crab perched atop a lump of chilled crabmeat and black caviar. On the side, four plastic syringes are stacked between slender silver barbell magnets. Each syringe is filled with a tasty soup: Peruvian potato, cream, carrot, garlic leek. Squeeze one into your mouth, crunch into the crab and move on to the next. This...
...into lingering nostalgia for the high-growth days of Suharto. During the party's political convention, Wiranto emphasized his ties to the strongman with a black-and-white video that juxtaposed his face and the dictator's. The biggest threat to Megawati, however, is Yudhoyono. The 54-year-old four-star general, who resigned from Megawati's Cabinet in March, is seen by the public as tougher on terror and a stronger leader than the wishy-washy Megawati...
...MARGARET ISLAND Shared by a couple of four-star hotels (the 1970s Danubius Thermal Hotel Margitsziget and the turn-of-the-century Danubius Grand Hotel Margitsziget), this is Budapest's largest private spa. Renovated in 2002, it includes two thermal pools, a swimming pool, sauna and a 400-sq-m fitness center. A one-day package (several relaxation treatments, such as massage and aroma bath, a light meal and access to pools and fitness center) costs $56.50 on weekdays, plus an extra $4.90 on weekends...
...White House has been off its game for weeks, and the hardballs just keep coming. Last week, as Wesley Clark endorsed John Kerry for the Democratic nomination, the retired four-star general said that "questioning our leaders, especially in time of war, is one of the highest forms of patriotism." That suggests a brutal campaign to come about the war that is still going on--especially since the two sides haven't stopped arguing about the one that ended more than three decades ago. Reported by Frank Sikora/Birmingham, Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Jackson Baker/Memphis, Mike Billips/Montgomery and John F. Dickerson...