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...really simple: you know him already. It's not like the so many public figures you meet who are really a different person. ...There's no jarring disconnect between the George Clooney that you expect to meet or the one you come to know through the media and the guy you end up working or drinking with or struggling with. It's the same guy. And that's pretty unusual...
...food world must have had mad scientists before--whoever decided to bring fire inside the house, the guy who thought it would be a good idea to yank on a cow's udder and drink whatever came out--but none of them could have played the part better than Arnold, 36, does. With slicked-back hair, a gap-toothed smile and an energy that would exhaust most meth addicts, he's become the gadget guy for top New York City chefs, as well as a teacher at the French Culinary Institute. In his Manhattan classroom, he trolls...
...more challenging to build brand names and a career or to run the New York City Marathon? -Rob Opaleski, ChicagoMy career. I could have stopped the marathon-it was one of the most beautiful things I ever did. There's not a lot of things where a real macho guy will say, "Yo. That was kinda impressive." [Laughs.] It was one of my shining moments, but I'll never do it again...
These security concerns - real and perceived - are the chief obstacle to the NGOs coming back. "We are still dealing with the fallout of 2003," says Guy Siri, a humanitarian coordinator with the U.N.'s mission in Iraq, referring to the bombing of the U.N. headquarters that claimed 22 lives, including the U.N. Secretary General's special representative to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. The following month, the U.N. withdrew from Iraq, returning only in August of 2004 in very small numbers...
...monitored because of a lack of security. For the handful of foreign NGOs currently in Baghdad the situation is frustrating, they say, because of the lack of direct contact with their Iraqi beneficiaries. "You are dependent on secondhand information - you could be in Amman or Washington or Paris," says Guy Siri, who says he can count the number of international aid agencies in Baghdad on one hand...