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...days after he was chosen by several diverse militant groups in December to lead the new Tehrik-i-Taliban movement. The interview, which will air Friday, is a first for the commander who seems to take his PR cues from the notoriously camera-shy Mullah Omar. Mehsud was surprisingly plump, says Zaidan, but his soft, stout figure and easy camaraderie belie a powerful charisma and laser-like focus. Zaidan attributes some of Baitullah's savvy to better education and more exposure to al-Qaeda: "These militant leaders now, they are living in the eye of the storm. They learn more...
...brainchild of leftist Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, as part of his campaign to make this heaving mountain capital a more pleasant environment. Last spring, he shipped in tons of sand to build four urban beaches that were also a hit with residents, while inspiring dozens of comedy skits about plump sunbathers walking through gridlocked traffic. Ebrard has also built miles of cycle paths, on which he's posed for cameras atop his mountain bike on sunny Sundays...
...arranged these atop a bed of mixed greens tossed with lemon juice, a touch of olive oil, salt, and pepper. As a finishing touch I drizzled on balsamic-cherry syrup. I could not have been more pleased with the result. The brininess of the cheese wonderfully complemented the plump, juicy figs, and the syrup seeped in with the lemon juice to create a delightful balance of sweet and sour. I next seared the foie gras on the grill and heated up some of the cranberry jam in my microwave to give it a more sauce-like consistency. I stirred...
...addressed soberly and perhaps even, eventually, with multilateral force. But the neoconservative campaign to transform Ahmadinejad into Hitler or Stalin, to pretend that he has the ability to destroy the world, to make a hoo-ha over letting the little man speak, is a cynical attempt to plump for war. Ahmadinejad may be ridiculous, but Podhoretz-who recently spent 45 minutes with Bush arguing for more war-isn't very funny...
...painting. Anatomy is almost always there in her bouncy, blimpy forms, the ones that constantly invoke the swells and inlets of the body, tickling and jostling each other, or thrusting their fat bulges right at us. Even her curvy canvases are bodily, as fleshy and as bosomy as the plump goddesses in Rubens...