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Alice Waters, food fighter
Advocating locally grown food has taken Alice Waters far beyond Berkeley, home of Chez Panisse, the restaurant she founded in 1971.
Waters is author of nine cookbooks, head of the Chez Panisse Foundation, vice president of Slow Food (as in the opposite of fast food) International. And this week, she will be rubbing elbows with the global muckety mucks attending the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Story continues below interactive map.)
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Sessions on the forum agenda include “Rethinking the Food Chain” and “Are We Being Bio-Foolish,” topics close to her heart.Waters has been called a food revolutionary for her belief in organically grown foods, served only when they are in season.
Chez Panisse serves only one meal a day, using meats, vegetables and other foodstuffs provided by a carefully developed network of suppliers. Without knowing what the menu will be, diners reserve tables months in advance.
“Chez Panisse is a much larger enterprise than a restaurant,” wrote biographer Thomas McNamee, in Alice Waters and Chez Panisse. “It is a standard-bearer for a system of moral values. It is the leader of a style of cooking, of a social movement, and of a comprehensive philosophy of doing good and living well.”
Waters also pioneered the Edible Schoolyard project, in which schoolchildren prepare and eat food they grow themselves.
Now she is planning an event for Labor Day weekend, called Slow Food Nation, in which farmers and chefs will demonstrate earth-friendly foods.
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Riding Lou Dobbs’ coattails
Lou DobbsLou Dobbs, the tough-talking anchor for CNN, is expert at riding popular opinion. Last week, a group called Americans for Legal Immigration attached itself firmly to Dobbs’ popularity as it launched an effort to draft him for president.
If nothing else, it was a good public relations move by ALIPAC, headed by William Gheen. The group shares Dobbs’ fervor against illegal immigration.
Kevin Horrigan reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that in the first 24 hours Gheen’s group received campaign pledges, should Dobbs choose to run, totaling $160,000. (Story continues below interactive map.)
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In his column headlined “Loupublicans and Dobbsocrats,” Horrigan wrote that when he first saw the email announcing the draft Dobbs effort, he thought it was a joke. He probably wasn’t alone.
But it would be a mistake to discount the appeal of the Harvard-educated broadcaster who has transformed himself into a raving populist. Dobbs says free trade costs American jobs. He regularly bashes big business, big government and the established political parties. CNN calls Dobbs the “leading media advocate” for America’s working men and women.
“The truth is not ‘fair and balanced,’ Dobbs told the New Yorker in 2006.
The Dobbs-for-president buzz is not new. It received a jumpstart in early January when the The Wall Street Journal ran a story about Dobbs gaining attention as a possible independent candidate.
The story quoted Gheen and Dobbs, who said he wasn’t a candidate but he had not ruled out the possibility.
Later that day, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed Dobbs about the Journal’s story. Dobbs said he was flattered by the interest and repeated that he wasn’t a candidate but could never say never.
“I’m an advocacy journalist and I’m having a great, great time right now,” Dobbs told Blitzer.
Whether he runs or not, Dobbs will have an impact on the election because of the audience he appeals to. Writing in The Politico last October, Christopher Gacek said that Dobbs “may be the most important person in the 2008 presidential election aside from the candidates themselves.”
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What a huge breath of fresh air should Lou Dobbs throw his hat in the ring. I would definitely vote for him. Not only is he the only MSM news anchor taking on illegal immigration (which he is totally correct on), he has taken on the economy, special interests, lobbyist influence peddling, government corruption, truth in government, religion in politics, free trade and favored trade status issues, national security, the folly of the Iraq War and how contractors are becoming enriched from it, middle class erosion and American worker protection, outsourcing jobs for larger corporate profit, excessive issuance of H-1B visas, our crumbling infrastructure, education, food safety and inspections, the environment, China’s dangerous imports and its influence on our national deficit, NAFTA, SPP, NAU, LOST, ridiculous government treaties, crime, drugs, racial issues and the list goes on.
Lou Dobbs has talked about, taken stances on, exposed and researched more issues than any other presidential candidate ever has or ever will.
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Lou Dobbs is a demagogue living on a 16 mil a year salary in a 300 acre home. He has found a way to be relavant in a world where he has to compete with the likes of oreilly and Hannity. I will vote for a candidate who is sincere on issues. Ron Paul is a believer. Lou Dobbs is a phony.
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Because of Lou there are more than 800,000(nightly viewers) American Citizens that know what’s going on in this country. Meddling foreigner leaders controlling our Politicans all the way up to our President!
The newspapers and television telling us that we are not smart enough to think for ourselves and telling and showing only what they want. Even they although, they’re probably fearful of losing their jobs…won’t admit the truth. Into days world, wrong is right and right is wrong, the is, at least, one person who see through the murky lens and tell the truth based on facts.
Because of that, he is shot down as an over zealous tv personality looking for ratings. Well guess what…….they’re wrong and the silent voices were listening and are now being heard. Guess that makes some people and governments nervous, so be it……LOU will get my money and my time if he runs!!! We need an American for America and not for businesses or foreign countries!
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Lou Dobbs quote from his book ‘Independents Day’:
The key difference between our two parties is purely partisan: While Democrats describe themselves as liberal, progressive, and committed to civil liberties, and Republicans describe themselves as conservative and committed to tradition and social stability, the truth is, their only guiding principles are that Democrats are anti-Republican while Republicans are anti-Democrat. They have become nothing more than two wings of the same bird.
If the distinction between Republicans and Democrats is blurred and increasingly unclear, it’s in large part due to the fact that both parties are dependent on the largesse of corporate America and the influence of special interests. Bush has sent tens of thousands of our troops around the world to fight the war on terror, and hundreds of thousands to Iraq and Afghanistan, yet for 6 years he has insisted upon leaving our borders and ports open to the illegal traffic of millions of illegal aliens and billions of dollars in illegal drugs.
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LOL, he will go as far as Tom Tancredo. I hope he runs. The guy is a LOSER
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We also need someone who has the guts to stand up to the President of Mexico who can not get it through his thick head we are a sovereign Nation run by “we the people”. Lou Dobbs is the only one to stand on national tv and tell Caleron to “stuff it” and mind his own business. Has our so called President or any member of our congress done this yet….I think not.
And because they haven’t, expect Calderon’s visit in Feb.to be apart of a pandering visit with our congress to try to stop what he calls the rhetoric in our presidential campaign by the GOP against illegal aliens. Something he can not get though his pea brain that citizens are demanding the issue be talked about.
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Scary Spice gets even, and more
Tracking the breakup aftermath for Spice Girl Melanie Brown and Eddie Murphy, it would seem that Scary Spice is coming out on top.
After ending his romantic involvement with the pregnant Brown in 2006, Murphy famously said, “I don’t know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test.” Brown and Murphy went to court to determine the paternity of Angel Iris Murphy Brown, and it was determined that Murphy was the father.
Since then, Melanie Brown has had a record year. (Story continues below interactive map.)
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Brown juggled rehearsing for the Spice Girls reunion tour with practicing for her American television debut on ABC’s reality hit, Dancing with the Stars. She outshined her competitors, including Marie Osmond and Jennie Garth, and ended up finishing in second place.
She also married her new boyfriend, Stephen Belafonte, in June, 2007.
Meanwhile, Eddie Murphy lost the best supporting actor Oscar to Alan Arkin, and then had to have his publicist dispel rumors that he stomped out of the award show, upset at his loss.
Murphy has made recent headlines for equally embarrassing reasons. After his breakup with Brown, he started dating film producer Tracey Edmonds. He proposed and they exchanged vows in a ceremony in Bora Bora on New Year’s Day.
A mere two weeks later, the couple decided against legalizing their wedding vows in the U.S., releasing the statement: “While the recent symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for one another on a spiritual level, we have decided to remain friends.”
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Hah!! I absolutely love MEL B. she is amazing.. as for Eddie Murphy!!
what a prik!! Mel B. Is way out of his leugue.. he should have felt blessed to be with her.. looks like he screwed that up!! what a nobber!!
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Stephen Ross, dealmaker
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Centerline Holding Company, which he chairs, today announced that Freddie Mac would securitize its $2.8 billion bond portfolio. Centerline said it would also receive a $131 million investment in January from the Related Cos.
Centerline execs said the moves were designed to reduce debt, attract capital for growth and shelter the firm from volatile interest rates.
Yet several stockholders participating in the company’s online conference call this morning described the arrangement as a sweetheart deal benefitting Ross and his companies at the expense of public shareholders.
Ross also chairs Related Cos. Jeff T. Blau, Related’s president, is a managing trustee of Centerline. A third Centerline trustee, Robert J. Dolan, is dean of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, named for its prime benefactor.
Related had a large cash infusion earlier this month, when several firms invested a total $1.4 billion. Mubadala Development Co. of Abu Dhabi and the Olayan Group of Saudi Arabia put in about $1 billion. Goldman Sachs and Michael Dell’s investment company, MSD Capital, invested an additional $400 million for a 7.5% stake, placing Related’s value at more than $5 billion.
Ross told the Wall Street Journal that Related opened talks for the cash infusion before the mortgage crisis erupted. The market “was so good we knew it wouldn’t last,” he said.
Ross formed Related 25 years ago to develop and manage government-assisted rental apartments. Over the last two decades, the company has become heavily involved in luxury residential and commercial projects, including Manhattan’s Time Warner Center.
Related is also developing properties around Penn Station, and is bidding on a massive project to redevelop the Hudson Yards on the city’s west side.
On another front, the Miami Herald reported two weeks ago that Ross and Jorge Perez were talking to Wayne Huizenga about buying the Miami Dolphins. Perez is the managing general partner of Related’s Florida operations.
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Benazir Bhutto’s American support network
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The Pakistani opposition leader, assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, made regular trips to the U.S., paid the D.C. lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller hundreds of thousands of dollars, and cultivated a long list of friends among American journalists and politicians.
A graduate of Radcliffe and Oxford, she maintained decades-long friendships with classmates. Commentator Arianna Huffington, who had known Bhutto since their student days, described her as “fearlessness epitomized.”
Among Bhutto’s many American friends and advisers were Washington Post columnists E.J. Dionne and Michael Kinsley. Mark Siegel, former executive director of the Democratic National Committee, has co-written a book with her, set for publication in 2008.
The U.S. played a major role in her return to Pakistan last October, after being forced from power in 1996. But in the end, support in America was not enough to protect her in her home country.
“I always thought this was roughly how it would end for her, but I didn’t think it would happen today,” friend Peter W. Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador and son of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, told The New York Times.
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