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...cook that would, in the words of Andrés, "respect the vegetable." In 2003, their pursuit led them to the Polytechnic's Department of Food Engineering, where they knocked on several doors before finally being directed to the lab where Xavier Martínez, Purificación García and Neus Sanjuan had been working for years on vacuum cooking. At first, there was a bit of culture shock as chefs and scientists tried to adapt to each others' way of thinking. "We spent the first month just trying to agree on vocabulary," says Torres. "Were we 'cooking...
According to head Teaching Fellow Allyson N. Field, nearly 600 students entered the lottery for the course, which could only accommodate around 200 students...
Chávez has long been an insurgent. He grew up idolizing his great-grandfather, who went into the mountains to lead a revolt against an early 20th century Venezuelan dictator, and Simón Bolívar, South America's 19th century independence hero. "Chávez has always seen himself as that kind of heroic man of action on horseback," says Alberto Barrera, co-author of the biography Hugo Chávez sin Uniforme (Hugo Chávez Out of Uniform). Venezuela's ambassador to the U.N., Francisco Arias, a former classmate who took part with Chávez in a 1992 coup attempt, says...
CHAVEZ: For two centuries in this hemisphere we've experienced a confrontation between two theses--America's Monroe Doctrine, which says the U.S. should exercise hegemony over all the other republics, and the doctrine of Simón Bolívar, which envisioned a great South American republic as a counterbalance. Bush has spread the Monroe thesis globally, to make the U.S. the police of the world--if you're not with us, he says, you're against us. We're simply doing the same now with the Bolívar thesis--a doctrine of more equality and autonomy among nations, more equilibrium...
...which coordinates undergraduate advising and launched the new Peer Advising Fellows program, has added five new staff members since its formation last spring. But the new office will be staffed with some familiar faces, as former administrative standbys take on new posts. Assistant Dean of Advising Programs James N. Mancall, resident dean of Ivy Yard for the past six years, made his transition from the Freshmen Dean’s Office to University Hall this summer. Mancall’s successor, William Cooper ’94, was named in late June. But the APO is not the only office...