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...Vinton: Any of those things eaten out of season is going to lack the flavor punch that you have when it comes from around your area. Those fruits and vegetables, when shipped from a long distance, have to be picked unripe, so that they are hard enough to survive the journey. They've taken a long time to get to your doorstep, and lost flavor and nutrition every step of the way...During the summer months, when it's so easy to support your local grower, you're not only enjoying a fresh meal the minute that you pick...
...targets and murkier moral choices? Changing the political weather in many countries is exactly what Tony Blair wants to do in the wake of the collapse of the European constitution. In a blizzard of speeches, op-eds and interviews in Europe, he's been trying to reach around the punch-drunk institutions of Brussels to persuade skeptical voters that Europe must modernize or atrophy. Blair loves this role, having perfected it in a career spent admonishing the Labour Party to shape up, but it's a definite departure in European politics. It used to be only the U.S. President...
Kline can be volatile: the cast of Pirates saw him punch huge holes in his dressing-room walls out of frustration with a performance. Yet his colleagues speak with deep affection. Says Glenn Close, a co-star in The Big Chill: "He was a worrier, unbelievably insecure. We would always tease him about how much he would look in the mirror at himself. He said that he thought his nose looked like a potato and that he had no upper...
...surprise to insiders. In breaking the news to his editorial-board colleagues last Friday, Frankel joked, "Let me be the last to tell you. The rumors are true." A 34-year veteran of the newspaper, Frankel is well regarded by newsmen and is close to Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, 60. He is described as a cautious editor unlikely to make drastic changes in the newspaper. His two chief deputies will be holdovers from the Rosenthal era: Deputy Managing Editor Arthur Gelb, 62, who is being promoted to managing editor, and Assistant Managing Editor James Greenfield, 62. Deputy Editorial Page...
...patient, low-key man, Frankel (whose relations with Rosenthal are said to be cool) is expected to calm the newsroom waters. "Consensus is his middle name," says a colleague. His selection, Times watchers say, was a politic one for Publisher Sulzberger. "I think it turned on whom Punch knew best," says one Times executive, "and who would go down well with the rest of the stockholders in the family...