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...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...
Does it work? More or less. At the workshop, I wore what I call my 20-minute "shoeters"--shoes that I can stand for 20 minutes before I want to shoot myself. I lasted a good 40 minutes. With practice, I bet I could get to a really quick party...
...argues that the demand that producers employ only union members stifles the industry's creativity. "They [the workers' union] want to restrict all creative freedom. How will I make a film if I can't decide which junior artist to employ? They're forcing producers to leave Mumbai and shoot elsewhere...