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...Chevalier compliments the emcee paid the female judges, the Bocuse d'Or is nothing if not French. But because it is also a kind of culinary Olympics, with teams from 24 countries competing over two days for a gold trophy that brings unmatched prestige and a 20,000-euro prize, the contest is imbued with nationalist rivalries that extend from the fans in the bleachers to the flavors on the elaborate platters. In fact, for the young chefs who compete in the contest, founded 22 years ago by Paul Bocuse, one of France's most revered chefs, navigating the tension...
...time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike ’54 died today of lung cancer...
...convincing the public that climate change was a clear and present danger - and a majority of conservatives are still doubtful - the political fight to really cut carbon emissions will be knottier. Although Obama has surrounded himself with scientists who believe that global warming is our biggest threat - including Nobel Prize-winner Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, and Harvard's John Holdren as White House science adviser - members of the President-elect's economic team reportedly remain doubtful that cutting carbon is worth the money. And even though Obama has pledged to listen to his scientists "even when it's inconvenient...
...have a really difficult job, managing a lot of different things," he said. "But they've been doing a good job for the past six years, and people have been really pleased." The Masters are also self-professed Strauss Cup aficionados. In fact, Rosen alluded to the intramural grand prize in his e-mail. "[J]ust a warning: nobody graduates if we do not win the Strauss Cup (soon to be in the display case in the dining hall) again this year," he wrote. According to Crump, who was commissioned by the Masters to spend last summer making artwork...
...Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than 30 books of poetry and criticism, W.D. Snodgrass, 83, taught for nearly half his life. "If you can be happy doing something else, do it," he would tell his students about the love of poetry, "but if you've got to do [poetry], you're a life termer...