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...only solution to the problem. Rob Viscome would still be alive if he and his buddies had been drinking at a Spanish club, where people do not get out of control and into fights. Hugo would not have risked life and limb running drunkenly from 1,200-pound bulls. Countless other teens would have avoided run-ins with the law and damage to their health if they could drink in public. As the Spaniards know well, a lot of moderate drinking is healthier than any heavy boozing...
...Tandem as a boy develops a fascination with celebrity signatures; in the poignant prologue, his father takes him to a wrestling match and drops dead of a brain tumor as Alex is jockeying to get a famous wrestler's autograph. Before dying, Alex's father gives him a signed pound note as a bet on the match, sealing the psycho-paternal importance of autographs for Alex. (To erase any doubt of that, the wrestler's handle is Big Daddy...
...Farsi of Rumi's day?which in any case he doesn't speak. To create them, he has used literal translations provided by others. Barks' emphasis on poetic essence over linguistic exactitude owes a strong debt to earlier poet-translators like Robert Bly, Kenneth Rexroth and Ezra Pound who championed a style of direct, aggressively unacademic translation. Following their example, Barks was able to create an American Rumi: one who speaks across the centuries with a voice as direct and imperative as a tug on the shirt...
...reason why Gessner has been so successful is his 6’5, 220-pound frame...
...never-ending search for foods to be snobby about, gourmets have finally got to salt. Like wine and chocolate, salt is fetishized by region, and the snootier salts sell for as much as $25 a pound. There's gray salt, red salt, French salt, Spanish salt, Italian salt, Portuguese salt, salt with algae, salt mixed with herbs, even smoked salt. Such a wide variety was the norm up until the 20th century, when Morton's used an evaporator to make salt white, fine and uniform, says Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History. "It's an irony of history...