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...days when I convinced Mom that I was too sick to go to school, I spent the morning on the couch next to her entranced by the trashiest of talk shows, cradling a gigantic bowl of Frosted Flakes in my lap, and in the afternoons I read to the soothing sounds of soap operas for background noise...
...Well I think Downing Street had also not seen anything like Tony Blair before. When Tony was elected he was 43, the youngest prime minister of the 20th century. We tried to bring up three children, and later a fourth, living in what was essentially a goldfish bowl in the public...
...Local businesses are trying to hearten people by throwing open their doors. One Reykjavík restaurant, Á naestum grösum, has changed itself into a soup kitchen offering downtrodden Icelanders a free bowl of barley-vegetable soup and a slice of bread, while just down the street a few local bars have begun selling "recession beer" at $2.60 a glass compared with the normal price of $6 or so. But with more layoffs and further turmoil expected, it will take more than hearty stew and a pint of cheap cheer to rescue this nation from economic despair...
...elitists and the egalitarians. The first are the people who go on to become food critics and restaurant reviewers. They are the food snobs who know what they like and are unrelenting in their opinions. The egalitarians, on the other hand, are the ones who wax nostalgic about steaming bowls of tripe prepared by their mother in the winter, or the chicken feet they had at dim sum with their grandparents. For them, whether or not they like a food depends much more on the company and memories surrounding the dish than on the taste of the item itself. (Tripe...
...Just walking back from dinner tonight, we were talking about the difference between trivia knowledge and Quiz Bowl knowledge,” he says, “and Dallas observed that trivia knowledge is knowing who the 29th president is, Quiz Bowl knowledge is knowing what the 29th president...