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Marchan, working from detailed instructions, ladles chicken stock and heaps of butter into a hot sauté pan and waits as the tomato sauce heats under a cheese melter, with Okura and Matz hovering like anxious trainers at the edge of a boxing ring. "You don't have to go so fast," Okura says, giving him a calming pat on the shoulders. He and Matz then shift gears. Instead of having him blanch the pasta, they want Marchan to finish cooking it in the sauté pan and then assemble the layers. His lasagna looks messier than the chef's version. Okura...
...case letters onto an endless, Kerouacian scroll. During the Iran hostage drama that dragged on for what seemed like half our time at Harvard, Jim Hershberg ’82 would hover over the machine through the night, awaiting some hopeful breakthrough or awful denouement. Occasionally the bell would ring to announce some report of special note—though, by my senior year, it seemed to have gone haywire, and would “ding” wimpily at odd moments, for commodity prices and weather updates...
...Bilmes says. The $2-trillion sum is so huge it is often hard for people to grasp, Bilmes says. In comparison, she says, the U.S. spends only $6 billion a year on disease control and $5 billion a year on cancer research.For a comparison that might ring truer to the Commencement Day crowd, the sum could fund four full years of Harvard tuition for 11.5 million undergraduates—more than the total number of full-time college students in the U.S.Or, it could pay for the entire world population to enroll in Somerville’s after-school basketball...
...campaign job, say that if the Democrats take over, he could become whip, the third-ranking leader. Several Democrats familiar with House sentiment speculate that if the party wins big, members might decide to be bold and pass over her for a Speaker Emanuel, which has a nice ring. (Says Emanuel: "She will be the leader. Not interested...
...have a say; it's a shrewd career move. He gets to do things he knows audiences love--move his eyebrows like inchworms, sing goofy songs, make fart jokes--while trying his hand at difficult physical work as well (he performed most of his own stunts in the ring), delivering a few moving speeches in Mexican-accented English (which is funny without being too offensive) and producing. The biggest challenge, though, was getting used to seeing himself as Nacho. "At first I would have rather been naked to tell you the truth," Black says, "because I just look so goddang...