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Last fall he moved to a new location with a stunning art deco interior, where he talks of trying to "exfoliate the levels of flavor." Whatever that may mean, on the plate it translates into several engaging combinations, such as Impromptu Salad, made with wild greens, herbs and even berries of the season; satiny poached sablefish sauced with white wine and leeks; and delicately moist salmon with julienne vegetables and herbed mustard butter...
...Baton Rouge. Teeley and Fuller huddle about Dole's suggestions that Panama's General Noriega received millions from the CIA while Bush was director. Teeley then calls an impromptu press conference and says to the assembled reporters, "It sounds like we're in a campaign with Lyndon Larouche." The starved national reporters scribble furiously. Finally, they have something as spicy as the jambalaya. But neither Fuller nor Teeley has a chance to discuss with Bush how he should respond to Dole's insinuations. "I can handle it," says Bush as he heads for a local TV interview. "I find...
...before the Iowa debate, Bush's staff persuaded him to face the press in an impromptu news conference. The scene conveyed as much as the evasive answers: Bush cornered by a knot of reporters, undeterred by the almost arctic temperatures. For 15 minutes he challenged the premise of many questions and repeatedly pleaded a failure to remember. He staunchly refused to discuss what advice he had given the President, although he has portrayed himself at times as a solid supporter of the arms-to-Iran fiasco and at other times as a man who expressed some private reservations...
Carrying cardboard coffins draped in black, about two dozen people staged an impromptu march in Port-au-Prince last week after a memorial Mass for the more than 50 victims of last month's election-day violence. Suddenly three gunmen, by some accounts dressed in army or police uniforms, began firing into the crowd. The toll: a 25-year-old mourner dead and four seriously wounded...
...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, no one was smiling. Students clustered around a computer in a lobby to check their investments. More than 150 showed up for an impromptu forum last Tuesday to discuss the effect of the market's uncertainty on careers. "Let's put it this way: I was a future investment banker," says Harry Friedberg, 21, who used the $17,000 he made trading options last year to pay his tuition and room and board. But now, he says, "I'll look harder at marketing." For Neil Donnenfeld, 25, the panic only confirmed a decision last...