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...votes for Congress have the Dems beating gop candidates. What's more, the media are focused on November's presidential contest, so there's little incentive to get much done in Washington these days. This could be "the most unproductive session of Congress in many, many years," laments Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution...
...Stephen Hess, a former White House staffer and current scholar at The Brookings Institute, has seen the executive privilege card played a few times - with former Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton - but it usually is resolved by some sort of compromise before it reaches the courts. That might not happen this time. "There's less of a chance of this being settled out of court, both because of what's involved and even because of the psychological stakes on both sides. I don't see anybody who wants to settle out of court, which is too bad because every...
...Still, it's good for the local economy. Thomas Hess, the local man who drove me through fields and back roads in pursuit of police-protester interaction Wednesday, is not at all unhappy about the G-8. It has brought a palpable increase in funds to his home town: the roads are newly paved and the buildings replastered and painted. Even the protesters bring extra cash. The supermarket near one of the massive camps housing around 5,000 protesters extended its hours to accommodate the surge in demand for food and drinks...
LONG BEFORE IT WAS COOL TO decry junk food, culinary historian Karen Hess bluntly assessed the state of U.S. cuisine, skewering such sacred cows as Julia Child and James Beard. "Our palates have been ravaged, our food is awful," she wrote in the 1977 book, The Taste of America. "Our most respected authorities ... are poseurs." In later works, Hess pioneered the academic study of food, insisting on primary sources and illuminating Colonial cooking habits in books like Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery, which had remained in the former First Lady's family for generations and was annotated by Hess...
...minute poll, students are asked if they would be willing to make donations to fund the proposed farm and if they would spend time there. Yale has operated a one-acre sustainable farm since May 2003, which attracts approximately 200 student volunteers, according to Laura Hess, who petitioned to start the project before she graduated in 2006. Yale sells its produce at local farmers’ markets and to local restaurants. Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, the co-chair of the Sustainable Allston subcommittee who is spearheading the project, declined to comment yesterday, saying that...