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...eight days after Easter and I'm still giddily making my way through a lovingly prepared basket provided by my boyfriend, filled with faux grass and enough sugar to send an entire kindergarten class into shock. The springtime candies - chocolate bunnies, jelly beans and the delightfully ersatz marshmallow Peeps - are an annual rite of passage for me and my dentist. "Oh, hello, Jessica. I see you're here for your traditional post-Easter cleaning?" Others, however tend to view my basket fixation with some concern: How, they seem to be wondering, can a vaguely grown-up person consume so much...
...saccharine moments, but they set the general tempo. More frequently, those bytes join forces to experiment in vagueness: “The sex & chess & cello fever’s gone / from your myopic trust, my Avalon.” “rare black-tipped cigarettes / in a handmade basket-case...
...industrialist, human bulldozer: Hyundai founder CHUNG JU YUNG wore all these hats and more. When the son of a peasant from a North Korean village died last week at the age of 85, South Korea lost one of its 20th-century giants. If Korea's leap from war-battered basket case to industrial powerhouse was miraculous, Chung was chief miracle maker. He started out selling rice as a runaway teenager, set up his own construction company, then piled into everything from supertankers to microchips. His energy and drive were Olympian, his chutzpah legendary: he once sold a ship before Hyundai...
...husband's eyes was that she could not deliver him a son?or even a daughter. So he threw her out and got himself a new wife. Alone and abandoned, Devika is trying to scrape by. "I can barely afford vegetables," she says, gesturing to her wicker basket of nuts and the few customers standing nearby eating them. "But what else can I do? Some days I eat peanuts for supper...
...deeply that poor children learn to read and that their waitress moms keep a few extra dollars out of their paychecks--he is also a classic old-school Republican with an unwaveringly pro-business, antilabor agenda. In the past two weeks, Bush and the G.O.P. Congress have delivered a basket of gifts to business, including a bill striking down workplace-safety regulations, another making it harder for people to declare bankruptcy and wipe out debts, a court action to open wilderness areas to road building and a move to prevent the mechanics union from striking against Northwest Airlines. No longer...