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...white-collar prison where he was serving time for securities fraud. Even Queen Elizabeth II is a fan, perhaps in part because her first son was born the very same year that "Scrabble" became a trademark. (That coincidence did not go unnoticed in Britain. An artist commemorated the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and the board game by creating a portrait of the Prince entirely composed of Scrabble tiles.) In countries like Senegal, Scrabble is an official sport. In fact, when Senegal hosted the French Scrabble World championship this summer, its government commissioned a special Scrabble song to mark...
...Even so, Facebook users were distraught, as evidenced by community groups like "Please God, I Have So Little: Don't Take Scrabulous Too." But last week, perhaps as an early birthday gift, Hasbro Inc. announced it had dropped its half of the lawsuits against the Agarwalla brothers. For players in the U.S. and Canada, at least, things are looking ... well, Scrabulous...
Spears, Britney •is described by attendees of birthday party for as "vacant" and "so out of it" •frequency of people shaving their heads is noted...
...Free Rides, Kid" [Nov. 24]. I think the issue goes way beyond the privileged and their children. Today's children grow up in a material world; they are being pampered regardless of their parents' income. Most children don't even have to wait anxiously for Christmas or their birthday to be showered with often senseless gifts. Walking into my children's room makes me wonder what to get my 3-year-old for Christmas. It's no wonder the work ethic suffers somewhere down the line. Where are these classes for the "not-so-privileged" child? Can I sign...
...over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe, a devout fan of Dom Pérignon '53, sipped it throughout fittings for the dress she wore to John F. Kennedy's birthday celebration in 1962 and stocked a whole car full for a road trip with Danish paramour Hans Jorgen Lembourn. On the silver screen, its status turned larger than life: Dom Pérignon has been imbibed in movies like Scarface and Charlie's Angels, and its most enduring fan, James Bond, refers...