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...Have you met all the people you based these characters on? Oh yes. I've talked to or met a lot of them: Barry Diller, Phil Donahue, Bernard Rapoport, Leonard Riggio...
...next elections? Sure. They'll be called the Bloomberg Party. Some billionaire will come in like Perot and turn it into a three-way race. There's so many billionaires, and a few of them are quite enlightened. You don't need a right-wing billionaire because they've already got the Republican Party...
...more interesting criticism, however, is the charge that czarism simply doesn't work. Czars generally don't have budget control or other real authority, and are often caught up in turf battles among Cabinet secretaries and fellow West Wingers. "There've been so many czars over the last 50 years, and they've all been failures," New York University public-service professor Paul Light told the Wall Street Journal. "It's a symbolic gesture of the priority assigned to an issue." Sometimes, however, symbolism matters. John Koskinen, the Clinton Administration adviser responsible for overseeing Y2K preparation, was cited...
Drive along Kalayaan Avenue, home to Filipino-Chinese TV chef Bruce Lim, and you might think you've come to the wrong address: lined with pawnshops, sari-sari (convenience) stores and stalls hawking spit-roasted chickens, the neighborhood is decidedly lacking in the atmosphere you might expect to signal Manila's hottest dining ticket. Nonetheless, it is there - in a nondescript building with a steep bamboo-lined staircase leading up to Chef's Table, instantly recognizable to fans as the rooftop kitchen cum dining room used in Lim's shows. Your visit isn't being filmed, but in this intimate...
...reviews of 50 American wines. Diners are left guessing as to what they're eating until they've tasted it, and Lim keeps the experience highly social, fielding questions, proffering cooking tips and encouraging guests to experiment in their own kitchens. "Cooking is your own personality," he says. "Try it, enjoy it, make it at home, make it for your friends. It's all gravy." Of course, it helps when you're a Cordon Bleu-trained TV chef. For reservations, call or text-message...