Hints and tips:
...I like Dara a heck of a lot more than I like Darren.” As with many immigrants in America, soccer helped him forge friendships....
...Chef Elizabeth Allen is of partly Singaporean descent and is unafraid to combine counterintuitively....
...Mark Mazower is professor of history at Columbia University and author of ‘Governing the World: The History of an Idea’ (Allen Lane)...
...Teiro Cuccinelli, the wife of Virginia’s attorney-general, spoke of the superiority of Republican women, who were “more intelligent and a heck of a lot more beautiful than the other side” and Susan Allen...
...Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt (Knopf, $24.95; UK: Allen Lane, £20) The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
...Bush’s “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job” praise for Michael Brown, the subsequently disgraced head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency....
...On Friday Thad Allen, a coast guard vice-admiral, took over ground operations in Louisiana from Mr Brown....
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