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...birds, which weigh about 16 oz. when plucked and readied for the oven, should not in fact be eaten within hours of decease. They should be "hung" for at least three days to bring out their uniquely gamy flavor. At London's incomparable Connaught Hotel dining room, they are served in classic fashion: roasted but bloody, in their own juice, with paté, bread sauce or gravy and potato crisps, preferably accompanied by a light claret "to tone them down a bit," as Connaught Headwaiter Joseph O'Toole puts it. (Sherlock Holmes preferred his grouse fried with bacon...
...surface, the answer seems simple: think of the lives that might have been saved if the attack on Pearl could have been averted. But against that certainty, those with the decisive force at their command must weigh the force of the unknown. It is entirely possible that World War II might have been still bloodier had the U.S. not been drawn into the fight by the Japanese assault. To this dilemma The Final Countdown makes a sensible, existentialist response. It is also fully aware of the ironies-the sheer comic puzzlement-implicit in a confrontation between a modern ship...
...Advising on science courses and placement. Pre-meds take note. You have nothing to lose but your integrity, soul, teeth, extracurricular life, not to mention sleep. Before you enroll in a science course here, make sure you weigh the options carefully...
Rupp proposed realigning the school's curriculum in September, in his first major proposal as dean of the school. "I thought the benefit of this early momentum would out-weigh the cost of having an initial proposal that had not emerged from the deliberations of faculty committees," Rupp says. Nonetheless, the faculty added another entire dimension to his proposal during its annual January retreat...
Nevertheless, the facts Powell relates far out-weigh his gratuitous sympathy, and the timeliness of his observations is affirmed by the school's latest readjustment, a move away from the support of agency-designed education, back toward more direct contact with individual institutions and "school leaders." Like so many of the realignments Powell describes, the current shift seems to correct an imbalance which was partially caused by uncontrollable social and economic conditions. But when viewed with the persepective furnished by this book, such circumstances cannot hide a reality that professors in Longfellow Hall have not fully addressed: in Powell...