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COOKING NATURALLY Maori tradition forbids accurate representation of the human form. But the rough-hewn wooden figures lining the ancestral hall at the Whakarewarewa Thermal Reserve, with their bulging eyes and protruding tongues, still manage to make their intentions known. "It's a threatening gesture, meaning, 'I'm going to eat you,'" explains Justin, my Maori guide...
...Rough and Ready
Like Lucinda Williams but with softer edges, Rose fuses country, honky-tonk and smoldering pop into something all her own. She has one of those rough, been-through-a-lot kind of voices, but she's careful not to overplay it. On Wheels Going By, an ode to summer driving and radio listening, and the jokey lover's plea See How I Need You, she positively purrs. When the brooding comes on Good Man, Rose nails it, singing something close to the perfect song as she asks her lover to "jump that hedgerow/ I'll jump this bedroom window/ Together...
...Back the Night, were bouncing to the song “What’s Your Fantasy.” In the song lyrics, Ludacris describes violent (but consensual) intercourse—he wants to meet his sex interest’s fantasies, which apparently involve “rough sex” on the 50-yard line of a football stadium and in the White House. CityStep obviously does not support this image of sexual relations, but the song represents an attitude I think those organizing Take Back the Night would want to challenge—that men assume...
...protégé is the man in Mass. Hall—University President Lawrence H. Summers. Their tight relationship is famous in Washington circles: they have known and worked with each other for a quarter of a century. Rubin is credited with softening Summers’ rough edges and grooming him to ascend the government ladder—Summers was his deputy and successor at Treasury. Last year, when the University was hunting for a visionary genius to lead Harvard into the 21st century, Rubin promised the search committee that Summers was it, and that the prodigy?...