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...created and then leave again; they're the ones who actually run the kitchen every night. That's where Batali is blessed - he has help from guys like Mike Toscano, who will be running the Eataly meat restaurant, and Mark Ladner, who runs Del Posto, Batali's upscale, special-occasion restaurant. Jean Georges can't be in his namesake restaurant every day, but his guy there, Mark Lapico, can. The same goes for Colicchio, with James Tracey at Craft. They aren't the big names, but they channel the big names and make the food come alive. And for those...
...20th century, movements had sprung up on the right and the left to set term limits and nearly every referendum on the issue passed by a 2-to-1 vote. "Term limits sever from time to time the natural comfortable tie between members and special interests in their district. They bring government closer to the people and improve citizen access to the process," says Philip Blumel, president of U.S. Term Limits, the largest advocacy group in the field. (See "Washington's Time for Bipartisanship: Retirement...
...have to engage in the occasional bit of wet work, and the Hamas commander - apparently the man in charge of taking weapons into Gaza - was a legitimate target in such spy games. "Past experience shows that disputes in this area tend to be treated as belonging to the special, sealed-off category of 'national security,'" wrote Jonathan Spyer in the Jerusalem Post. "Where states have good reasons to maintain healthy ties with one another, such incidents are rarely allowed to muddy the waters for long...
...while U.S.-Pakistan relations are better now, they are still fraught. As U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke, a veteran of the Balkans and other bruising diplomatic acts, remarked wearily on Feb. 18, during his seventh swing through Islamabad, "This is the most complicated relation with an ally that I've ever experienced. I don't want to mislead you; it's still fragile...
...performances. The gathering was not a celebration but a lamentation marking the one-month anniversary of Haiti's earthquake - a disaster that many in Haiti believe Brutus predicted. But she thinks her country can rise from its travails. "God always has a plan for his children. God has a special plan for us," says Brutus, whose Haitian Creole is sometimes interrupted with a word in English...