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Like a first date who talks too much, Salts is overly self-conscious. Take the cartoonish lettering on the shingles above its door. Or the italicized mantra that takes up a full page of the menu: Throughout history, the offer of salt has been regarded as the offer of hospitality. The tables have saltcellars with cute little wooden spoons, which are remarkably impractical when it comes to actually seasoning food. Sprinkling salt from a spoon means spilling it all over, or having your meal end up tasting overwhelmingly of brine...
Proctors and house tutors may be in the best position to enforce the ban on underage drinking, but they are also in the best position to protect students who are reluctant to confide in strangers at UHS. Given the mantra among administrators that alcohol is a health issue before it’s a disciplinary issue, the College should de-emphasize the disciplinary role of proctors and House tutors to foster these critical and often difficult conversations...
...equally clear: join Washington's program, or risk being cut out of the process altogether. "You have the opportunity to seize the moment and rebuild your great country based on dignity and freedom," Bush said. "The regime of Saddam Hussein has gone forever." Hammering home what has become his mantra in recent weeks, he said: "We will stay until the job is done...
...movie camera and just filming the city in all its quotidian banality. Kon's response will start before you finish your sentence. His eyes will narrow, his lips will curl into a sneer, and with a quiet menace he'll recite the line that has become his mantra through countless interviews and film-festival question-and-answer sessions: "I'm an anim? director. I don't do anything else. People can take it or leave...
...Getting away with it, or what sociologist Ashish Nandy calls "following the law of the jungle," is now the dominant mantra of India's social and economic life. Economists estimate that the true size of India's GDP would be double the official $481 billion if the country's vast black economy were also taken into account. And while the nation fares slightly better than adjacent Pakistan and Bangladesh in terms of corruption, this is hardly an upstanding neighborhood. Each year, Transparency International (TI), an anticorruption watchdog, evaluates the world's countries according to how graft-free their societies...