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Baking a tarte tatin seemed an ambitious task for a newbie cook, but with the inclement weather outside and an orchard's worth of ripe fruit and other requisite ingredients in the pantry, I decided to tempt fate. But, as is typical with my ventures in the kitchen, things quickly got out of hand. I was about to Google the solution to my cooking dilemma, until a response to a status update on my Facebook profile - which read "Bill is cooking tarte tatin" - pre-empted that move and caused a dramatic paradigm shift in my view of the Internet...
...Like a growing number of Harvard students, Barnhill grew up outside this realm of privilege and struggled to adjust to its demands. But he also worries Harvard’s culture of privilege might tempt him to turn his back on those left at home...
Slaught, however, doesn't rule out the possibility of some team taking a chance on Bonds. He is still a powerful hitter with insane plate discipline, which will tempt GMs to offer him a deal. In 2007, he slugged 28 home runs and led the National League in on-base percentage for the 10th time. His finished sixth in OPS - on-base plus slugging percentage - a favorite stat among the number-crunching set. (When reached by TIME, Mr. Moneyball himself, Oakland general manager Billy Beane, declined to comment on Bonds.) Now that Alex Rodriguez has reunited with the New York...
...Chinese student drama group to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Asian cinema icon Tony Leung), using virginal Wong Jiazhi (newcomer Tang Wei) as a lure. Wong poses as a well-bred aristocratic wife, Ms. Mak, and employs her acting abilities and womanly wiles to delicately tempt Mr. Yee. Taming the beast, however, becomes an increasingly perilous and poisonous endeavor. The character dynamics are evocative and rich in nuance. They comprise the film’s nucleus and are roughly microcosmic of the external political conflict. The first half of the movie underscores the students’ na?...
...finances are nothing compared with his directorial appetite for catastrophe. Telling him something's impossible is like inviting Paris Hilton to a party. He'll be on the next flight to Doomsville, as when he read that a volcano was to erupt on Guadeloupe; off he went to tempt death and came back with the spectacular documentary La Soufrière. On the Amazon epic Fitzcarraldo, he took his crew hundreds of miles from the nearest city and had them lug a 320-ton riverboat overland and up steep hills. He found a suitably lush location on the Amazon...