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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OMG!!!! harold totally won!!! now have u seen stephen&#039;s website,, it&#039;s just disgusting really,,, i mean to have said all those horrible things in his so called journal just makes me sick!!! for any one who want to go to his website and see the dumbness in it here is the page,,, www.stephenasprinio.com!!! i hope you all have a blast seeing how ridiculously the page is!!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG!!!! harold totally won!!! now have u seen stephen&#8217;s website,, it&#8217;s just disgusting really,,, i mean to have said all those horrible things in his so called journal just makes me sick!!! for any one who want to go to his website and see the dumbness in it here is the page,,, <a href="http://www.stephenasprinio.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.stephenasprinio.com</a>!!! i hope you all have a blast seeing how ridiculously the page is!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Katie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2006 19:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Was she a slim, pretty Asian girl? If so, they&#039;re still going strong as of last Monday when they were hanging at my bar. Otherwise, maybe there&#039;s a new lady in his life?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Was she a slim, pretty Asian girl? If so, they&#8217;re still going strong as of last Monday when they were hanging at my bar. Otherwise, maybe there&#8217;s a new lady in his life?</p>
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		<title>By: Vajra</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vajra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stephen completely redeemed himself imho on the Reunion show.  His heartfelt apology to Candice won me over.  The whole process seems to have been a learning experience for everyone.  With the exception of Kenneth who comes off as a complete boor.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;As for Tiffani, it&#039;s all about her.  I wonder what color the sky is on her planet?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stephen completely redeemed himself imho on the Reunion show.  His heartfelt apology to Candice won me over.  The whole process seems to have been a learning experience for everyone.  With the exception of Kenneth who comes off as a complete boor.</p>
<p>As for Tiffani, it&#8217;s all about her.  I wonder what color the sky is on her planet?</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Grace, THANK YOU for letting us indulge our Top Chef obsession on your design site. Just another reason your site is so special.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Go Harold!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grace, THANK YOU for letting us indulge our Top Chef obsession on your design site. Just another reason your site is so special.</p>
<p>Go Harold!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For me, Top Chef fizzled from the moment Stephen was given the boot... and when Tiffani was chosen over Leanne? FURY. It is simply rediculous that the final three aren&#039;t Harold, Stephen, and Leanne. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Even though Stephen was a complete a-hole, you can tell he&#039;s got talent -- you didn&#039;t even have to taste his food to know his combination of flavors were creative and daring. And I for one would love to sample his cooking. As for Leanne... she just seems like a talented, hard-working, dedicated chef who respects her profession. She was the most professional chef in the first challenge -- Hubert said he&#039;d offer her a job on his line any day. And as somone who has eaten at Fleur de Lys, I can tell you, his restaurant is incredible. The food is wonderful, the service is first class. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;As for Tiffani, I think she&#039;s a hack. She&#039;s a Salieri. Mediocre and she knows it. Thus the sabotage and ssssssnakey behavior.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For me, Top Chef fizzled from the moment Stephen was given the boot&#8230; and when Tiffani was chosen over Leanne? FURY. It is simply rediculous that the final three aren&#8217;t Harold, Stephen, and Leanne. </p>
<p>Even though Stephen was a complete a-hole, you can tell he&#8217;s got talent &#8212; you didn&#8217;t even have to taste his food to know his combination of flavors were creative and daring. And I for one would love to sample his cooking. As for Leanne&#8230; she just seems like a talented, hard-working, dedicated chef who respects her profession. She was the most professional chef in the first challenge &#8212; Hubert said he&#8217;d offer her a job on his line any day. And as somone who has eaten at Fleur de Lys, I can tell you, his restaurant is incredible. The food is wonderful, the service is first class. </p>
<p>As for Tiffani, I think she&#8217;s a hack. She&#8217;s a Salieri. Mediocre and she knows it. Thus the sabotage and ssssssnakey behavior.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 07:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My feelings as simple minded as you may consider them...I enjoy watching Top Chef and I am sure that any of the top three are quite capable of providing fantastic fare for any venue, however, there is a lot to be said about the attitude exhibited by each involved. Harold, seems to be the most even tempered and able to deal with all situations (whether he likes them or not) as compared to the other two. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Although this is unrelated, I work in the healthcare industry (also catering to customers) where we have completely turned our business around in the past 5 years by eliminating the highly stressed, over the top, dominating and egotistical individuals. We have replaced them with those that are even tempered, understanding of everyones differences and those that exhibit the ability to get in touch with the situation without any undue trauma. This appears to be the way that Harold deals with day to day or minute to minute situations. This places him way ahead of Tiffany and Dave. Dave is rarely in control of his emotions and Tiffany is a just a control freak in general (once again, not to negate their ability to cook delicious food). I&#039;m sure that they are fantastic chefs as we have seen, but could they be truly liked by all of their employees and take their business to the top? The manner in how one expresses themself has everything to do with how well their business succeeds...and how they relate to their fellow workers can make or break an industry...this I know from experience.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My feelings as simple minded as you may consider them&#8230;I enjoy watching Top Chef and I am sure that any of the top three are quite capable of providing fantastic fare for any venue, however, there is a lot to be said about the attitude exhibited by each involved. Harold, seems to be the most even tempered and able to deal with all situations (whether he likes them or not) as compared to the other two. </p>
<p>Although this is unrelated, I work in the healthcare industry (also catering to customers) where we have completely turned our business around in the past 5 years by eliminating the highly stressed, over the top, dominating and egotistical individuals. We have replaced them with those that are even tempered, understanding of everyones differences and those that exhibit the ability to get in touch with the situation without any undue trauma. This appears to be the way that Harold deals with day to day or minute to minute situations. This places him way ahead of Tiffany and Dave. Dave is rarely in control of his emotions and Tiffany is a just a control freak in general (once again, not to negate their ability to cook delicious food). I&#8217;m sure that they are fantastic chefs as we have seen, but could they be truly liked by all of their employees and take their business to the top? The manner in how one expresses themself has everything to do with how well their business succeeds&#8230;and how they relate to their fellow workers can make or break an industry&#8230;this I know from experience.</p>
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