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...Finnish chef Markus Maulavirta of Restaurant Ilmatar in the stylish Klaus K hotel in Helsinki. He even owns a patch of Arctic swamp to pick his own cloudberries and joins an annual wild-reindeer roundup in Lapland. For his 50th birthday, the chef spent 12 days biking the entire length of Finland, savoring every mile of the journey. His menu is an ode to the land, its traditions and its caretakers, featuring items like bread made from birch-bark flour, and sauna-cured ham from pigs raised for flavor rather than volume. "I try to show people?both Finns...
There are signs, though, that change is under way. While his predecessors kept union negotiations at arm's length, union leaders say Walsh's direct negotiation with his counterpart helped speed up a resolution. Ahead of BA's move next year into the new $8.5 billion Heathrow Terminal 5, the airline persuaded thousands of ground staff to agree to change their practices. Such deals, Walsh says, are "evidence of securing agreement without hassle, without friction...
Every student has had one of those Friday nights when he or she has bemoaned the inconveniently narrow Harvard beds. Now, unfortunately for Dunster residents, length has also become an issue, as has closet size, dresser size, desk size, and every other Harvard-issued dorm accessory. “One closet is so small, we can’t fit hangers in it the right way,” said Mariah A. Bush ’10, opening a door to reveal a sad little closet in which coats were hanging with their lapels facing the opening. And Bush wasn?...
...Reed believe that with the return of Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, their measure will start with a baseline of 53 Senators, assuming no one changes his or her mind, as Virginia Senator John Warner did earlier this week on Jim Webb's proposal to limit the length of troop deployments overseas...
...enjoy sitting through a cut of I'm Not There if it were twice its current length, or half. At 135 mins. (about the same as Across the Universe), the film almost dares a viewer to choose favorite parts, and others for pruning. The section in which Gere as an older Bob hunts for his lost dog baffled and bored me; the Franklin and Bale parts I found quite moving; Blanchett is worth watching through her character's triumphs, disasters and longueurs. Overall, I'm glad I was there...