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...somehow richer for possessing this knowledge. Food, especially restaurant food, comes to us as a highly wrought object, but who wrought it and how is a matter that's usually concealed from us. Books like The Hunger - along with satisfying our curiosity about who has sex in the walk-in freezer, and how exactly - restore the link between food and the labor that created it. They're Marxist gastronomy...
...site of the explosion is marked by a 15-foot crater. The devastation wrought all around resembles the aftermath of a wartime aerial assault. Investigators are picking through the rubble that lies all around for clues. Rescuers in the building have been conducting a search of their own, hoping to lift survivors to safety. After hours of rummaging, they locate the body of Kamal Ahmed, the hotel's much-liked general manager. But he is no longer alive, to the despair of his family...
This is just too sad. A deer died yesterday after trying to jump over the wrought-iron fence around the cemetery between the Square and the Quad, according to the Cambridge Chronicle, which offers up the following quote from Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief Jack Gelinas...
...opening scene of Daniel Walker Howe ’59’s Pulitzer Prize winning history, “What Hath God Wrought,” artistically depicts the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, which pitted British regulars against a heterogeneous American force. The “Americans” hailed from Louisiana, Haiti, Kentucky, encompassing crack Irish-American units, freed slaves, and wary Native Americans. Orders were translated into Spanish, French, and Choctaw. The diverse internationalism of such a scene must have particularly piqued the interest of Howe, Harvard graduate and Professor Emeritus of both Oxford and UCLA...
...Right now he presides over the stability of squalor. Burnt cars and blown-out windows litter the outskirts of Tskhinvali, South Ossetia's largest town and self-styled capital. Kokoity's government received 10 billion rubles - $324 million at the current exchange rate - from Moscow to reverse the damage wrought by the five-day war. But residents have seen little evidence of any such spending. (See pictures of Russia's war with Georgia...