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...International House of Pancakes (IHOP), which was supposed to have opened in June 2006, will open by New Year's Day 2007, according to the owner of the 16-18 Elliot Street space, Robert Banker...
...They are working diligently there now every day,” Banker said. “In the next week or two they will have tests run by the fire department to make sure all the fire equipment is in working order...
This opening dialogue offers the potential for an insightful critique of the societal tendency to conflate persons and property. Unfortunately, instead of developing this theme (not so foreign to the aspiring i-banker set), the novel descends into hackneyed tropes of the romance genre. This third installment of Willig’s “Pink Carnation” series is ultimately concerned with providing the reader vicarious erotic gratification...
...externalities—that conventional farmers should be taxed and organic farmers subsidized. That (and current subsides for conventional farmers) is the subject of another discussion. Rather, people, beginning with students at Harvard, should reconsider the hidden economic consequences of their dinner choices. Maybe then, even the prospective investment banker and economics concentrator can become a fan of the organic banana...
...Dramatic murders are a staple of Hong Kong's courts and media. Last year, the city was mesmerized by the trial of Nancy Kissel, an American expat convicted of drugging her banker husband with a poisoned milkshake and bludgeoning him to death. But despite its gangster lore and its flair for B-movie-style killings, the city of 7 million has one of the world's lowest homicide rates. Murders plummeted from 102 in 1997 to just 34 last year, in part perhaps because the city's gangs have shifted some of their focus to southern China. "Occasionally you have...