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...restaurant becomes the new American theater, and the young, the well-off and the restless may eat out five or six nights a week (see following story), their itinerary not only includes the fashionable eateries of their hometown but follows a trendy trail from coast to coast. "With affluence, your palate becomes very important to you," observes Jonathan Waxman, the chef who brought California cooking to New York in his popular though wildly expensive restaurant, Jams. Chefs sought by such traveling gastronomes are likely to include Alice Waters (Chez Panisse, Berkeley), Paul Prudhomme (K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, New Orleans...
...palace, Rafsanjani, 70, strides in with the bounce of a man half his age. He's even accompanied by his film crew. It's all part of a slick campaign aimed at selling one of the Islamic republic's old founding fathers as a hip reformer in tune with restless young Iranians, in hopes of returning the former President to the job he left in 1997. As he settles into a gilt-trimmed chair, he says he may do a campaign commercial with the Iranian director of the recent film The Lizard, a huge hit that poked rare...
...Enough. A new day, a new wave. Time again for nuance, doubt and the comforts of relativism. It is not just the restless search for novelty, the artist's Holy Grail. It is weariness with the responsibilities and the nightmares that come with clarity--and the demands that moral certainty make on us as individuals and as a nation...
...punching, pushing, threatening or verbally abusing school staff. Violence can haunt teachers even when they're not physically harmed. "After the bell one afternoon," recalls an infants teacher formerly based in inner-city Sydney, "a dad asked me how his son was going. I said he was a little restless, but it was near the end of term and all the kids were. The stepmother rang the school the next day and asked that we not speak to the father about these things - the boy had got a beating the night before over what I'd said...
...nears 11 p.m. on a Saturday, the men at the bachelor party at the Irish American Club in Chelsea are restless. The bartender is overworked and the best man impatient. Some guests duck outside in the rain to smoke. The Shamrock strippers are more than half an hour late...