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...Clean the dried chilis with a damp cloth. Open the chilis with a knife by making a lengthwise slit down the side. Remove the seeds, stems and veins. Reserve the seeds. 2. Sautee the chilis in a saucepan in a bit lard, vegetable or olive oil (enough to coat the bottom of the pan) at medium heat. Remove each chili as it begins to change colors and becomes puffy. Place them in a bowl lined with paper towel. If the chilis start to burn, lower the heat. 3. In the same pan, saut? the raisins until they puff...
...attacker lunged at him with gleaming knife in hand, Irvin Faust deftly stepped aside and caught him by the wrist. He then pinned the attacker face-down to the ground using one arm while quickly disarming him with the other. The two then bowed to each other and sat back down. Faust, a sixth degree black belt in aikido from Albany, N.Y., was one of the high-ranking instructors—called sensei—invited to lead the spring seminar of the Harvard Aikikai, which took place last Saturday and yesterday at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center. The seminar...
...America's cup yachtsman. Raised in a rough, mixed-race township on South Africa's Cape of Good Hope peninsula, he had to prove himself as a street fighter long before he ever climbed aboard a sailboat. In his early teens, he fraternized with local gangs and got in knife fights. These days, however, he puts his strength into grinding winches and helping to trim the mainsail of a sleek, 25-m America's Cup?class racing yacht. Burricks' journey from local tough guy to élite sailor is just one of the remarkable stories to come from Africa...
...Thrifty Big Spender Caspar Weinberger, who died March 28, earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" for slashing budgets in the Nixon and Ford administrations. But TIME's July 27, 1981, cover story explained how, as President Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary, Weinberger oversaw the rebuilding of the U.S. military-a project that cost a record $2 trillion...
...you’re trying to rid yourself of pain, but it sounds like [writing “Pinkerton”] was a really powerful experience because of the pain that you went through. Do you feel like you still need to stick a knife into yourself, emotionally...