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Instead, creativity is channeled into the company's $1 million R&D kitchen. There, Okura and his staff of 10 chefs, line cooks and pastry chefs have free rein to experiment. Brandon Cook, one of three R&D chefs and the only one who has cooked in a Cheesecake Factory, is riffing on the lobster roll--subbing crab and shrimp for lobster and thick white bread for the traditional top-split hot-dog buns in this classic New England sandwich. Before setting out samples--one on grilled bread, another toasted--he has gone through half a dozen iterations, playing with...
...close U.S. ally and one of its biggest recipients of military aid, Mubarak has lately had to walk a fine line, continuing to keep his tight rein on power while paying lip service to the kind of democratization that the Bush Administration claims to be spreading in the Middle East. Mubarak has argued that the mere fact that Egyptians are protesting is "evidence of democracy," but in recent weeks, harsh beatings of demonstrators and detentions of political dissidents have left little doubt about the Mubarak regime's lack of tolerance for any real opposition...
...Since leftist President Hugo Ch?vez began convincing the cartel's 11 member nations (of which Venezuela is a founder) to rein in world oil supply again after he took office in 1999, the price of crude has lept from less than $10 per barrel to a record $70-plus today. So Ch?vez is using the occasion of hosting a major OPEC meeting this week to trumpet the new mojo he's helped give OPEC - as well as to lobby to bring oil-producing neighbors like Ecuador into OPEC. "This OPEC meeting holds a lot of meaning for us," says Ch?vez...
...Paulson can rein in spending enough to turn the deficit around it will be clear that there was no pre-nup, and his words will carry the full weight of the U.S. government the first time he confronts an international or domestic crisis. He needs that...
...objections to Jaafari were based less on style than substance, and it's not clear Maliki will be very different: critics, for instance, saw Jaafari as wedded to a sectarian outlook that precluded offering greater power to the Sunnis in the hope of drawing them in, unwilling to rein in the militias associated with his own sect, and (in the case of the Kurds) hostile to a federalism that would allow the creation of de facto-independent regions. One early test will come over the next month as Maliki cobbles together a cabinet - Jaafari had favored putting members...