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...Levin has reintroduced a bill he co-sponsored last year, with then Senator Barack Obama, that makes a seemingly simple new demand - that states add a single additional question to their incorporation application: Who are the beneficial owners? (Foreigners would also have to provide a copy of a passport-page photo.) The intent is to introduce the same standard - know thy customer - banks have had for years...
Australian chef david thompson has a dry sense of humor, so when he describes his 370-page whopper of a cookbook as "by no means exhaustive," you take it with a pinch of salt. Actually, make that a splash of fish sauce. For this is Thai Street Food, Thompson's passionate and meticulous tribute to one of the world's great curbside cuisines. Thais not only snack between mealtimes, they snack between snacks. And who wouldn't, when almost every street is what Thompson calls a "delicious obstacle course...
...hillside acres that could insulate him from an outside world he found increasingly trivial, irrelevant and intrusive. For a while he mixed comfortably with his neighbors. But then a couple of teenage girls interviewed him for what he thought would be a story on the high school page of the local paper. When the paper billed it instead as a scoop in its regular pages, Salinger was furious. It was the last interview he ever gave. Not long after, he built a high wall around his house...
...suitable quality, possessing both the tensile strength to accommodate a particularly involved cleaning and the softness necessary to accommodate the delicate extremities of a budding academic. But this ration is utter madness when the toilet paper in question is the quality of a Great Depression-era phone book page. What could have been accomplished in two swift wipes now requires twice the effort and demands thrice the material...
...declaring his troubles were due to "the dogged determination of one man, Nicolas Sarkozy" - who, de Villepin reminded journalists covering the trial, had once pledged to "hang up whoever did this to me from a butcher's hook". Little wonder, then, that even in claiming to turn the page, de Villepin made his view clear that he'd survived Sarkozy's political assassination attempt. "I salute the courage of the tribunal, which allowed justice and law to prevail over politics," the silvery-haired de Villepin said after the verdict. "I now want to turn to the future to serve...