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...When lunchtime rolls around, Janson Wu '00 hops out of the kitchen asking if anyone wants "vegan macaroni and cheese," holding the box aloft with a charming smile. After close questioning, he admits that his recipe is really "vegan macaroni, soy sauce and nutritional yeast." The response is not enthusiastic. Wu proceeds to go into the kitchen and make macaroni, soy sauce and nutritional yeast for himself. He has been vegan for three weeks. "It's actually more of a whim," he says. He drinks soy/rice/oat/almond milk on blind faith, completely unsure of "exactly how they make any of those...
...then there's the master. Clinton can launch a whopper like "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" and have it stay aloft for nearly a year. Gore says there's "no controlling legal authority," and it's a late-night laugh line in Jay Leno's monologue before you can say Buddhist nun. Gore is just so obvious. When laying one on us, he tilts his head, goes all syrupy like an infomercial host, and slows his singsong voice even further (picture a teacher's pet whining Good morning, Miss Jones, and you've captured the Gore...
Organizers held University apparel aloft and condemned factory working conditions until Coop management asked the protestors to leave...
Personal Injuries (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 403 pages; $27) is Turow's latest reminder that Justice is not necessarily a blindfolded matron holding aloft a set of balanced scales. She, or more likely he, is often peeking and open to tempting offers. "The bribery of judges is eternal," Turow gently instructs us. "At common law, before there were statutes and codes, the word 'bribe' meant only this: a benefit conferred to influence a judge...
...classic tale, told and retold through the ages: the hero reaches for greatness but fails, finds wisdom and maturity in scarred exile, then comes home to save his dying kingdom in Act III. Watching Steve Jobs hold his gorgeous new iBook triumphantly aloft before his assembled legions at last week's MacWorld convention in New York City, it was easy to imagine Apple Computer's interim-CEO-for-life perched somewhere in the pantheon between Odysseus and Simba the Lion King...