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...author, Stéphane Reynaud, a self-taught chef who was born into the meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature of it, opening the book with a chapter titled "Pig-Killing Time at Saint-Agrève" (his mountain hometown in the Ardèche region of France) that is a frank, celebratory portrayal of the "taking apart and devouring" of one of the locally...
...more important is what the hara-kiri hat trick shows about Robert Gates, the new secretary of defense, and the new kind of leadership he has brought to the Pentagon. "I don't have very much patience for people that don't step up to the plate in terms of addressing problems that are under their responsibility," Gates said shortly before he ordered Harvey to submit his resignation papers...
...choice—put the Crimson in a three-run hole after only three innings.With two outs, junior Shelly Madick relieved freshman starter Dana Roberts and wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam. Harvard mustered a run in the fifth inning when senior Lauren Brown crossed the plate. The score was a team effort, as Brown singled up the middle to lead off the inning and advanced on a pair of sacrifices—a bunt by senior Julia Kidder and a fly by sophomore Bailey Vertovez.Unable to string more hits together, the Crimson left a total of 10 runners...
...luminosity only a matter of gaslight spreading into every dining room and parlor and respectable street. There were also the laughably large new panes of plate glass that amounted to architectural magician's tricks, erasing the old boundary between indoors and out. And the unearthly rays of light beaming from burning lime that transformed any actor on a stage into a shining angelic or demonic figure; the magic-lantern shows of Halley's comet; the new, exceptionally yellow yellow paints and bright red printer's inks, all mixed up by chemists in laboratories; the telegraph wires that sparked and blushed...
Before seeing “Islander,” I knew little about the art of lobster fishing. To be honest, my ignorance didn’t bother me: as long as the crustacean found its way to my plate, with a side of melted butter, the world would keep spinning. Now, I’m all but an expert at the art of “bug catching,” an expression that stirs up more drama than the average land-dweller would think. “Islander,” writer-director Ian McCrudden?...