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...will miss his friendship, wry wit and his sage and remarkably straight-forward advice,” Nadol said. “He had seen it all in the course of his professional career, and he knew what was the right thing to do intellectually...
Ruggiero hasn’t always been the team sage; she’s seen it from both sides. At 18 years old, she was the youngest member of the 1998 Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team in Nagano, Japan...
...played everything from a low-life English thief to an Arab prince to a Jedi sage, but in a 62-year career, Alec Guinness never played Alec Guinness. This most chameleonlike of actors did his best to keep his true self hidden from the camera and from the world. Three years after his death, biographer Piers Paul Read aims to explode that subterfuge in Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography (Simon & Schuster; 632 pages). He succeeds at a superficial level, uncovering plenty of unpalatable truths about Guinness. Sadly, Read brings us no closer to understanding the actor's art. The mask...
Aside from the “standard” paprika, Zimmerman keeps nutmeg, fennel seed, caraway seed, oregano, allspice, mint leaves, curry powder, all purpose Greek seasoning, basil, dill weed, sage and ground ginger, to name a few. He also keeps sesame seed oil, barbecue sauce, honey, chopped green chilis, ground bittersweet chocolate and 25 different kinds...
When he returned from France to become the sage at the Constitutional Convention, Franklin was not America's most profound political theorist. But he did embody one crucial virtue that was key to the gathering's success: a belief in the nobility of compromise. Throughout his life, one of his mantras had been, "Both sides must part with some of their demands." He used this phrase many times, but never more notably than when the Constitutional Convention became deadlocked on the issue of whether the new Congress should be proportioned by population or have equal votes for each state...