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Recipe courtesy of Chef Kerry Simon of Simon in Los Angeles and Las Vegas
...Europe is to persuade the U.S. and emerging economic powers like China and India to take similar action, it has to back up its rhetoric with action," says Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based Centre for European Reform. "If the E.U. retreats from its leading position on climate policy, it will surrender its first-mover advantage and, with it, the chance to make European firms leaders in key environmental technologies...
...because plenty of celebrities are extremely clever; they just tend to keep it to themselves.) Fisher is the author of four novels, several screenplays and two autobiographical one-woman shows. Now she's written a memoir, or rather adapted it from her show of the same name, Wishful Drinking (Simon & Schuster; 163 pages...
...Fisher says that she hated Leia's Cinnabon hair ("Give me a hairstyle that further widens my already wide face!") and that George Lucas wouldn't let her wear a bra; instead, he made her tape down her breasts with gaffer's tape. She writes about marriage to Paul Simon and sex with Chris Dodd and meeting Bob Dylan. When Dylan showed up at a party wearing sunglasses and a parka, Fisher said, "Thank God you wore that, Bob, because sometimes late at night here the sun gets really, really bright, and then it snows...
...splendidly progressive of Clinton to place his Africa policy in the care of relatively young women ... On the other hand, he's utterly ignorant of a cultural reality." - Simon Barber, a journalist in South Africa, speculating that Rice would not be able to negotiate with Africa's older male leaders, as quoted in Stanford Magazine, November/December...