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...coals. Etxebarri is one of only two restaurants I know that buys live angulas (baby eels) and makes them worth their exorbitant price. The delicacy of the seafood courses proves that less can be oh-so-much more, but all flame tamers are pulled off for the chuletón, the king of steaks. Arguinzoniz swears by the complex, marbled meat of retired Galician milk cows, fattened for slaughter until they resemble Kobe beef but with richer flavor, and seared to an incredible blackened crust. Forget delicacy and sophistication - this is simply the best steak ever...
...undergraduates, despite a drop-off of more than 200 students from first semester. The course still has more than two times the number of undergraduates registered for the next largest course, Historical Study B-49, “History of American Capitalism.” Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw wrote in an e-mail that he is “delighted” that so many students elected to take Ec 10. “I wish every student would enroll in the course during his or her time at Harvard,” he added. Mankiw...
...writer was the 2006 Vera N. Schuyler Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies...
Hoberman says he does not see a similar profusion of films that effectively address the Iraq War, though he cites “Children of Men” (Cuarón, 2006) and “The Situation” (Haas, 2006) as exceptions to the rule...
...disguised as giant stick bugs, a mysterious Faun (Doug Jones), something called the “Pale Man” (Doug Jones)—a child-eating monster with eye-sockets in his hands—and, most terrifying of all, a fascist, sadistic stepfather named Capitán Vidal (Sergi López). All aspects of production in this adult fable are expertly done, especially the visual and sound effects. Del Toro is one of three Mexican directors with Oscar-nominated films this year (the other two being Alejandro González Iñárritu with...