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...match the Super Bowl's hype. By the eve of "the world's biggest single-day sporting event," even casual fans can recite the betting line, retrace Kurt Warner's journey from an Iowa supermarket to the cusp of the Hall of Fame, or explain why the Steelers' zone-blitz scheme bedevils opponents. St. John's book is not for those casual fans. The veteran sportswriter and Wall Street Journal columnist spent a year covering the foot soldiers who prep the gridiron for glory-and who ensure the event is delivered to an electrified crowd, in flawless high...
...doesn't pay to get out too far ahead of the classically trained jury. "You have to stay in the comfort zone of the judges," says Roland Henin, the U.S. team?s French-born coach. "They can't be tasting or looking at something they don't know, because you'll lose them." Innovative Copenhagen chef Rene Redzepi, who served on the jury, was a little regretful about that comfort zone. "I was hoping it wouldn't be luxury item upon luxury item, that they would strip away the pretension," he said after tasting his way through 12 plates...
...Diyala and well over 40 hours of stubborn negotiation, U.S. commanders last week brokered a deal that will see area security provided by a joint force of Iraqi-army and Peshmerga fighters, with U.S. troops present to make sure everyone stays calm. (See images of Iraq's northern border zone...
...where did the idea for the Razzies come from? Wilson blames attempting to host an Oscars party while living in the Pacific Time Zone. "The Oscars come on at five and are over some time around nine, and when you have that many people over, you have to have something to do, so I set up a cardboard podium and invited people to offer up nominees for the worst film of the year." The first Razzie statues were sculpted pieces of foam, and the inaugural Worst Picture award went to Allan Carr's Can't Stop the Music, a musical...
...night, blindfolded and handcuffed in the cold, and interrogated him, along with five other men. My brother and two of the other men were finally released. The others were transferred to an unknown location. My brother was able to find his way out of the closed-off military zone, which used to be his neighborhood...