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Cardamom n. Iranian. A spice that is traditionally used in Middle Eastern countries, most notably Iran. Iranian spice connoisseurs grind cardamom seeds and use the resulting powder to season coffee. At Baraka, this seasoning garnishes the tops of tea drinks recommended as compliments to dessert. i.e.: Mahmoud refuses to drink dining hall coffee, lamenting the fact that coffee sans cardamom simply isn’t the same...
...Charlemagne and you'll get hooted out of the public square; emphasize how membership can cut tariffs and boost the bottom line and you may have company - at least from people who run companies. The thrill is gone, replaced on both sides of the E.U. divide by the familiar grind of competing national, corporate and individual interests. The mood isn't uniformly ugly. In each of the 10 candidate countries there are more people in favor of joining the E.U. than against it. In most, a large apathetic minority has no opinion. But the Speak-Up-for-Small-Nations Democracy...
...fluidly, as opposed to Gold Teeth Thief’s spastic collisions. Sparse French dancehall blossoms into jump-up jungle from DJ Rush Puppy; Bubba’s frantic “Ugly” glides into a head-nodding Akrobatik beat that gets swallowed whole by the industrial grind of /rupture’s Nettle alias; Mutamassik’s shuffling Sa’aidi breakbeats give way to hyperkinetic bhangra...
When you are a writer with that many axes to grind, it's only a matter of time before you produce a novel about serial killers. Not that the offhand killings in Lullaby (Doubleday; 260 pages) involve anything so blunt as a hatchet. The murder weapons here are words. At fortysomething, Carl Streator has been a widower for 20 years. He is a recognizable Palahniuk character, the kind who deals with grief by building small scale models of churches, factories and houses, then stomping them to splinters until his feet bleed. Carl is a newspaper reporter working on a series...
...Newdow, a physician with a law degree, a five-year-old daughter and an axe to grind with monotheistic religion, decided he wasn't happy about students at his daughter's school standing to say the Pledge each morning. So he took the Sacramento school district to court, charging the Pledge violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which dictates a strict separation between church and state...