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Have you ever found yourself saying, "Ah, a fine spring day at last! I wish I had a ramp to gnaw...
...Then you're unlike the many, many chefs and green-market enthusiasts across the country who constitute the Church of the Ramp. Of course, they don't really gnaw on raw ramps, also known as wild leeks; they pickle them, char them and do a million other artful things with the onion-like stalk, the first green vegetable of spring in much of North America. There is no shortage of enthusiasts, both at home and in restaurants; after all, the Church of the Ramp is one of the fastest-growing denominations in the religion of seasonality. (See a special report...
...splashy epics that concentrated on the men. She dallied with Newman in Until They Sail, supported Peck as he made his way across The Big Country and in Spartacus was the slave who is bought by Olivier but pines for Douglas. There was some meat for her to gnaw on there, and in another 1960 film, Elmer Gantry, with Simmons as the fake evangelist promoted by Lancaster in one of his best smiling-shyster roles. Her Sister Sharon Falconer is more mature and complicated a figure than Sergeant Sarah Brown, and Simmons does full womanly justice to the character...
...Chinese counterparts cruise up the smooth highways on the other side in luxury sedans - a detail that Indian-army officers privately admit pains them. In 1962 it was China's superior roads and bridges that allowed its army to move into India so quickly, and the embarrassment continues to gnaw. Raji Nainwal, a student in 1962 and now a consultant on a hydro project in Uttarakhand - another border state - worries, "Our dams are in the Himalayas. If China [is] able to intrude and blast one of [them], then what would happen?" (See pictures of China's investments in Africa...
...could have been a Hall of Famer if the substance abuse and other problems hadn't derailed your career. Does that gnaw at you at all? No, it doesn't gnaw at me. Of course sometimes I think about it. But I use a line from Mickey Mantle all the time. "If I would have known I was this good, I would have taken better care of myself." It is what is. I lived it, and I am grateful for the greatness I did accomplish...