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...More than a catalog of meals, Pork & Sons tells the story of a community bound together by its passion for pork. It can be navigated with the help of an index, but unlike most standard cookbooks, it can also be appreciated as a narrative by reading front-to-back, letting the flavors and insights unfold over the course of 13 chapters. The pages are peppered with dozens of photographs of the region and its people, and with playful cartoons drawn by Reynaud's close friend, José Reis de Matos. The visuals complement the chatty, engaging voice of the author...
...really did run the company, although he was its chairman and the owner of some of its well-known programs like Wow! Projects and Brand You. The story of the company's postdivorce ascent reflects its struggle with and ambivalence over the Peters legacy--the inspiration of his driving passion and the pitfalls of his provocateur's stance and über-guru status. And it raises the question of whether theorizing about management has much to do with managing...
...time highest opening-weekend gross. Consider: It's the beyond-bloody saga of an ancient king who leads a high-minded rebellion against a corrupt hierarchy, who endures extraordinary physical abuse before dying nobly, and whose name has been praised throughout history. In other words, 300 is The Passion of the Christ...
...test match in which each side bats twice, with no limit on the duration of an inning). After India's unexpected triumph in the 1983 World Cup, cricket became a cornerstone of popular culture in India - and South Asia (neighboring Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh all share India's passion for the game) became the spiritual and commercial home of the game. Although the World Cup is being staged in the former British colonies of the Caribbean - which field a combined team, the West Indies - satellite television will ensure that its biggest audience will be in India. Indeed, the rights...
...While the game's top stars promote everything from shoes to banks and are mobbed whenever they appear in public, the passion for the game is as evident at the grass roots where you still see poor kids with improvised equipment playing for hours on end in the dusty streets and city alleyways of Pakistan and India. Driving across Sri Lanka two weeks ago, I saw farmers playing atop the banks dividing their rice paddies. Even Afghanistan has been touched by the contagion: Since the fall of the Taliban in 2002, thousands of returning Afghan refugees who fell in love...