Word: beane
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Calypso-flavored steel drumming is not the average class offering at Choate, where students dress like L.L. Bean models and carry lacrosse sticks across carefully manicured lawns. Located in Wallingford, Conn., 12 miles north of New Haven, it is the button-down boarding school boasting such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy and Glenn Close -- a place of birch and magnolia trees and Colonial Revival brick buildings with white trim, intimate dormers and gilded towers...
UNTIL SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, it was not possible to eat a corned beef sandwich in the dining hall--unless, of course, you bought one in Tommy's Lunch and snuck it in. Half-sour pickles and black bean soup were equally unavailable. And forget about Dr. Brown's soda...
There's another problem with Bean's, however. Everyone knows where it is, and everyone goes there. All the time...
Freeport is jammed every day of the year. There are no parking spaces to be found, but, luckily, not at night--and L.L. Bean is open 24 hours a day. At 1 a.m. or, even better, 3 a.m., the store is very empty...
Outdoor types flourish in Arkansas. Those who can avoid being shot by one of the abundant hunters, including, on occasion, President Bush, will find a chance to put all of that L.L. Bean equipment to use. A Jeffersonian pastoralism still prevails among the natives of these rural areas; some call it backwardness, but the attitude remains...