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Food fights: A gastronomic soap opera in the Twin Cities
While you're nibbling on seared scallops at your local high-end eatery, a soap opera -- replete with backstabbing, burnout, perhaps even burglary -- might be unfolding in the kitchen. More

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Children of Men

Great film, worth all the hype I've been reading about it in the NY Times. It does make Pan's Labyrinth look much less violent.

Mr. Bush is expected to announce...

Mr. Bush is expected to announce his plan for escalation in the next few days. According to the BBC, the theme of his speech will be “sacrifice.” But sacrifice for what? Not for the national interest, which would be best served by withdrawing before the strain of the war breaks our ground forces. No, Iraq has become a quagmire of the vanities — a place where America is spending blood and treasure to protect the egos of men who won’t admit that they were wrong.

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