Word: whip
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...choosing the latter." Yes, the show's queen-tet embody stereotypes--try pitching a show on which five Asians help people with math--but they are clever, funny and self-aware. As Allen puts it, "If you want to stereotype me as someone who dresses great and can whip up a mean risotto, that's fine with...
...barman, in fact, is one indicator of change in erstwhile colonial clubland. At a luxury hotel 10 minutes away, the staff don't know how to make a mojito?the au courant Cuban cocktail of rum, mint and sugar. But at the LRC, they whip one up in seconds. There's not a whiskey soda in sight...
...Americans going to help rid us of the mullahs?" Advisers to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei say he is genuinely worried about a possible U.S. attack. As a result, they say, he has ordered his fellow ayatullahs to refrain from using their influence with Iraqi Shi'ites to whip up unrest against U.S. troops. Iran's Foreign Minister last week denied charges that his country is trying to meddle in Iraq, saying U.S. officials are "looking for escape routes to justify their failure so far" to bring order to the country after...
...started two weeks ago, when House majority whip Tom DeLay came home to Texas to stir up trouble. DeLay saw a chance to boost the Republican majority in Congress by redrawing the congressional districts to give the Texas Republicans a 22-to-10 advantage. The Republicans drew some funny lines, like the ones dividing Austin into four districts, one of them connecting the capital to the border of Mexico 300 miles away. Though redistricting is usually done only after a Census, DeLay had a pretty good rationale for wanting one, since Republi-cans beat the daylights out of the Dems...
...years ago, she says she "focused on everything I could find that had initials." Mass-producing customized goods isn't easy. Stephanie Hirsch, owner and designer of Inca, which makes initialed caps, visors and swimwear, says her best sellers are A, B, C, D and S. But she will whip up the occasional Q or Z to order. "Wouldn't you know," she says, "that the one thing that blows out of the store is the most difficult to produce?" --By Charla Krupp