Word: mud
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...fields near Lammefjorden outside Copenhagen, at first I don't see much to eat. But Soren Wiuff, a vegetable farmer, is digging up crosnes, tiny curlicue-shaped, artichoke-flavored roots, with his bare hands. A Danish TV crew is taking close-ups of my shoes punching through the frozen mud crust. It's hard to say which they find more entertaining: the idea that someone would visit a root-vegetable farm in Prada heels or that anyone would travel to the Nordic region in search of haute cuisine...
Soldiers and Marines may want a more sane deployment schedule, but they don't want pity. A rational Iraq policy, debated honestly, will do more to help them than a mud fight in Washington over who likes the troops more. Policymakers actually cannot ethically and rationally rely on sentimental "support our troops" arguments, since the reality of American politics is the opposite: The troops are bound by law and their sense of honor to support American policy - no matter how wrong-headed the decisions American citizens make through their legislators. Soldiers and Marines will march into hell for their country...
...loss-mitigation department as soon as you sense trouble. The more temporary the help you seek--a forbearance, say--the more likely you are to get it. Lenders prefer workouts to foreclosure, but attitude is key. "It's not easy to be polite when you feel dragged through the mud, but this is an art, not a science," says Scott Thompson, president of the realty group Mortgage Resolution Services. If you seek relief for an investment property or second home, more will be asked of you, such as tapping family for money...
...Please don't worry about the mud in the West Wing," he wrote to me, a reference to our brief meeting five years earlier, when I absentmindedly tracked mud from the Kentucky Derby track onto antique carpeting in the White House prior to an interview. "After a lot of scrubbing, I have finally cleaned the mess...
...THAT BLACK MUD? Put a little sugar in it ... add a little water, and you can paint all day." So said American folk artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth, who got his start in mud painting as a toddler, accompanying his healer mom through the Alabama woods. Using his fingers as a brush, plywood as canvas, and sugar, berries and turnip greens for color and texture, Sudduth, a star of the folk-art explosion of the 1980s, painted his life--his dog, farm animals and, after traveling, the U.S. Capitol. Sudduth's works are in the permanent collections of a number...