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...used to be hip. I can't be hip anymore. I'm running for President.' ?Senator Obama, after refusing to wear hip-hop-influenced clothing for a photo shoot...
...heading up Achieve, a corporate-driven education initiative that is separate from Ed in '08. Barrett says no one is talking about how we've set such low expectations for our students, who are falling behind other nations'. Instead, he says, "The national debate is on did Sarah Palin shoot a moose or a caribou? Let's get over...
...basic supply and demand. Fantasy sports enthusiasts, who are used to obsessing over player stats, may be surprised to find that prices aren't tied to specific performance criteria - touchdowns, home runs, rebounds. So if Peyton Manning throws five touchdown passes on Sunday, his price won't automatically shoot up. But if you own him at, say, $15, and a buyer (or some would say, sucker) wants to give you $20 for it, you profit...
Unless copious usage of butter can be considered a human rights violation, French cuisine fits each of these categories perfectly. On what grounds, then, could UNESCO shoot down the French proposal? Khaznadar’s dismissal seems trivial; given this definition of the ICH, gastronomy should, by all means, be eligible for consideration. Is the committee simply unwilling to accept the consequences of their definition of the ICH? Or is there a problem with the definition itself, if it allows gastronomy to slip into...
...what should be done in the future if a proposal to, say, preserve the African Civet-roasting techniques of people deep in the forests of Zanzibar reaches committee? UNESCO would be wrong to shoot the proposal down purely because it’s related to gastronomy. Sure, the French can be stubborn and will never be accused of cultural humility, but that doesn’t mean they’re not onto something. We should take this opportunity, outlandish though it may seem, to reconsider our definition of the ICH and to work gastronomy into that definition. We have...