Word: goat
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...comprises nothing but swirling molecules of brie and stilton, violently bombarding your person like so many solar particles. Arrayed on the shelves, in perfect storage conditions, are golden wheels whose names speak of rainswept farms, dark cellars and expense: Ardrahan Large, Innes Log, Stinking Bishop, Ticklemore Goat. If you want to make a meal of it right there and then, you can pull up a chair and choose a bottle of wine-not in the walk-in cabinet itself, but at a large communal dining table just outside, where vintages beckon from wall-mounted racks. (Should...
...happy situation in the desert, and one he often prolonged by taking most of his directions from pre-schoolers. We also had to backtrack several times to retrieve washing or a suitcase he forgot. And besides the guinea fowl, he squashed a dog, grazed a camel, thwacked a goat, blatted a pigeon and sucked a rare-looking green finch into the grill...
College presidents are a fairly unflappable lot, but nothing gets their goat quite like the issue of rankings. Take a complex institution, crunch it down into a single number, and the adjectives start flying: "Silly." "Snotty." "Scandalous." Echoing many of his peers, Robert Weisbuch, president of Drew University, blames the rank-ordering of diverse schools for much of the current college-admissions frenzy. "It's almost as though we've created a monster," he says. And yet, despite years of vituperation, most schools keep dutifully filling out the surveys that make these ratings possible...
...used to have an informal house camp for kids who wanted a safe place to go during the day. This spot later became the Aang Serican Peace Village, a community-based religious youth organization in Tanzania.“The kids used to ask me to make them drums, goat-skinned drums,” he recalls. It was during this time that Gsann realized the potential music had to turn around the Tanzanian youth culture. He had noticed that the public education system, an antiquated remnant of British imperialism, failed to teach children about African cultural achievement. Gsann credits...
When I opened my package, I couldn't believe how deeply red the meat was. The Japanese call it sakura, which means "cherry blossom," because of the color. I kept waiting to slice it up to serve with goat cheese and crackers and an earthy bottle of Chteauneuf-du-Pape, but my wife Cassandra kept saying she wasn't hungry yet. Cassandra, I was learning, takes her clichs pretty seriously. When she was finally hungry enough to eat a horse, I cut us some thin slices...