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...Bank of Canada's fall survey of business confidence shows 69% of the country's business leaders expect their sales volume to increase at a greater rate over the next 12 months, compared with the previous year. That's the best reading since the country's central bank began compiling these quarterly statistics more than a decade ago. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...sure of their inferiority that they count on leaving early—potential Cinderellas filling out brackets weighted against them. It’s the hierarchy that debate creates, a world where the best pairs in the country are known by the combined initials of their last names. I began hearing the letters “PJ” uttered reverently for the first time. PJ said such and such, PJ were invited to a special tournament, PJ almost...
Consider the scene at The Otherside one recent Friday night: the restaurant’s usual throng burst into a roar when two of the scruffiest, hipster-iest men in the establishment began flinging small objects off a balcony into the crowd below. The objects, it turned out, were decks of cards and miniature palm-sized helmets—just large enough for a hipster to keep a finger or two safe while zooming around Boston on a bike without breaks...
While working paid detail at the Hong Kong restaurant in Harvard Square, Officer Brian Mushlin noted a man who looked drunk with alcoholic breath, bloodshot eyes and unsteady on his feet. One of the doormen at the restaurant reportedly asked the man to leave several times but the suspect began to argue...
...fructose corn syrup as basically poison and more and more consumers choose products that don’t contain it, the CRA faces a crisis in the making. It desperately needs to draw a line between high-fructose corn syrup and junk food in the American mind. And so began an 18-month campaign in late June 2008 to promote the substance. The CRA’s website, sweetsurprise.com, includes quotes from “experts” to assure consumers of high- fructose corn syrup’s benignity, a “myth vs. fact” section...