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SIMPLY MING PBS, CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS "Fusion" food often means??one condescending thing: Northern European cuisine fuses with bits of another, subordinated culture. Ming Tsai gives all world foods equal footing and pairs them unexpectedly. In the first show of the new season, Asia meets Mexico with a soy- and sesame-laced mole sauce; later he creates a Mediterranean-Chinese tapenade. Each episode uses one recipe--for a rub, sauce, paste and so forth--as the base of several dishes, a starting point from which the home cook can improvise. Competent and low-key in an era of high-decibel...
...long as recruitment rather than conscription remains the nation's preferred manner of filling its military ranks, the means???and the money?are going to have to be found to attract higher-quality enlistees and to retain them in sufficient numbers. Says Sociologist Janowitz: "The volunteer force in its expanded form is a unique institution in American history. We have never run a force like we have now." The challenge is to keep it running in a way that assures the nation's security...
...William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped at the Mills store. "I was talking about running for Congress by the time I was ten," Mills recently recalled. Oldfield was a member of Ways and Means???so young Mills decided that he, too, would sit on that committee...
...true, good Catholics, not Catholics of false name and Catholics who in the great family of the church wound the heart of Mother Church by their manner of speaking and acting and give such a bad example as to drive others away, there is only one indispensable means???to obey the Church and its head and to think with the Church and its head...
...little, untidy, white-cassocked priest bustled frantically about a farmhouse in Connecticut. The dream?a high-church Episcopal school to educate boys of modest means???for which he had abandoned ordinary parish work, had seemed wholly accomplished yesterday; now everything appeared to have gone wrong. True, he had this rented house in the beautiful Berkshires, a staff of three masters, a family of four Negro servants, an enrolment of 20 boys. But the boys were beginning to arrive, there was much to be done, and the father of the Negro family had left in a huff. Out to the kitchen...