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...stumble downstairs cursing that hangover tomorrow morning, you might notice something different. Instead of the standard Saturday fare of taco meat and refried beans, Harvard University Dining Services is setting out a veritable smorgasbord, including Chicken Florentine, Penne Primavera Salad, and Focaccia...
...there have been more serious critiques of the $900 billion--plus American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--from more serious critics. The stimulus smorgasbord does include some head scratchers, like $246 million worth of tax breaks for movie producers to buy film and $1.4 billion for "rural waste-disposal programs." Principled conservatives worry that it's so big, it will institutionalize Big Government; principled liberals worry that it won't be big enough to resuscitate a flatlined economy. And a bipartisan chorus--including Clinton Administration budget chief Alice Rivlin and Reagan Administration economist Martin Feldstein--has argued that the stimulus package...
...reactions. There was just one problem: the French reactions just didn't happen. "In consideration of the fact that German cuisine is regarded as a lethal weapon in most parts of France, this personnel decision is a sensation," The Daily Mail quoted conservative German daily Die Welt amidst a smorgasbord of clichés. "It would be in the same dimension as if tomorrow Mercedes calmly announced the new boss of the development division was from Mars...
...which humanities professor and director of the Center Homi K. Bhabha moderated. The panel explored the role food plays in people’s lives as nourishment, as an expression of care, and as social and economic therapy. Before the dialogue began, guests were invited to eat from a smorgasbord of sustainable produce piled high on tables extending around the perimeter of the room. Bhabha opened the discussion by stressing the importance of sustainability as not only a social option but also an obligation. “Sustainability obliges us in material and metaphorical ways to nurture our resources...
...debate into a spectacular of technical punditry. Using the audio, video, and, most importantly, closed captioning feeds provided by CNN, the three guys were able to track and count the candidates’ buzzwords, analyze their body language, and isolate their argumentative technique. The event was a nerd smorgasbord, as satisfying to the tech geeks as it was to the policy wonks.I turned to Eric Gunther and Justin Manor of Sosolimited (the third member is John Rothenberg) for advice on how to describe what I had just witnessed. Their technique is not about distorting the debate, but rather about making...