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...sipping Hefeweizen Unfiltered Wheat Beer out of plastic cups as shells smoothly zipped by. The North Yarmouth Academy tent proudly displayed an assortment of M&M’s and Tootsie Roll Pops amid a seasonal arrangement of pumpkins. Its neighbor, Berwick Academy, had a less impressive spread: a basket of apples and unopened jugs of apple cider kept lonely company with a welcome book yet to be signed by a single alum. But the top-tier tent village was about much more than candy and pretentious beer. Alec P. Smith, who called the strokes at the University of Richmond...
...poor. We deplore child labor, fight any temptation to treat children as commodities. But if a father is thrilled that his son gets a better chance, is that his right? Parents have forever sent their children away in hopes of a better life, sent their Moses afloat in a basket down the river to be found, if God smiles, by Pharoah's daughter. Moral instinct tells us that a father's love counts for something; taking a baby away to be raised even in a splendor does violence to the bonds that define who we are. But is that instinct...
...unaffordable. "What does it do to Bordeaux's image to see people doubling their prices?" asks Marie Courselle at Château Thieuley, who is barely managing to avoid cutting her prices. "They are sabotaging Bordeaux's image. It's crazy that we are all put in the same basket." Indeed, a central concern in Bordeaux is to avoid a fragmentation of the community. "It's almost like a Latin American economy, some very rich and some very poor. This could cause a revolution," worries Pierre Lurton, who runs two of the most exclusive properties, Château Cheval Blanc...
...their grad school peers don’t know which way to pass the bread basket either...
Thomas-Nininger—whose business card names her profession as “Perception Management” and warns “Your Image Is Showing!”—said the bread basket is to be passed to the right, but not without first offering a roll to the diner to the left...