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After six and a half years at Harvard, Kessel, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a former New York and Boston restaurateur, left HUDS and joined private food provider AVI Food Systems as Executive Chef and Operations Director for Wellesley College. Kessel, who played an integral role in crafting residential menus and working on the Food Literacy Program, said a former HUDS employee had been recruiting him to work at AVI for the past three years...
...HUDS Director for Marketing and Communications Crista Martin said that Kessel’s position at HUDS had been in no way downgraded, but that he left to pursue a career opportunity...
...complications; if the party has little choice but to pass the bill by itself, progressives have even less patience for producing the kind of centrist bill that Baucus has been pushing. But Dems will probably stick with a centrist bill because no one builds majorities from the extreme left or right, and the holy grail(s) are those independent voters who sit smack in the middle. A CNN poll earlier this month found that for the first time, a majority of independents, 53%, disapproved of Obama's handling of health care - a 13-point drop since March. (See TIME...
Yeah, right. Earth to Juanes: this is Cuba we're talking about, the worn out Cold War football of every left-wing apologist and right-wing opportunist in the hemisphere. Politics enters into todo, everything. Any idealistic electric-guitar picker who thinks otherwise is just asking for the kind of grief Juanes experienced in the months leading up to Sunday's Peace Without Borders show, complete with the death threat he received from an anti-Castro militant on Twitter and the insults hurled at Miami's Cuban exiles from the newspaper Granma and other mouthpieces of the Castro regime...
...that indifference seems to contradict the spirit of U.S.-Cuba engagement that Obama expressed in his presidential campaign and at the Summit of the Americas earlier this year, it may be because he's found that conservatives can still give him headaches over Cuba and the Latin-American left. Republicans are currently holding up key diplomatic appointments in Congress, for example, to protest Obama's support of leftist Honduran Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military coup over the summer. (That issue may become more complicated with the news Monday that Zelaya smuggled himself back into Honduras...