Word: breakfast
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Today we mourn the passing of one essential facet of life at Harvard--madness. Hot-dog madness, breakfast madness, winter madness and summer madness will never again brighten our gastronomic lives, now that Elsie's has closed. After 30 years, a great institution of higher eating has disappeared...
...Gingrich's more unusual reform plans is to set up abroadcast booth in the speaker's officefor radio talk show hosts. Guess which kind? Clue: more than two-thirds of U.S. radio gabbers lean to the right. Gingrich will also host a monthly breakfast or lunch for favored talk show hosts from around the country, and he guarantees that at least 20 other members of Congress will show up. The motive, he told new GOP lawmakers, is pure soapbox: "We need you on that talk radio. We need you writing letters to the editor when you see some piece...
...writes and thinks as well as discusses and debates -- even through mealtimes. For the Pope, meals are occasions to bounce ideas off friends from Poland, bureaucrats and theologians who want to discuss policy and liturgy, young seminarians, ordinary people who are invited for his 7 a.m. Mass and breakfast. There is a kind of hierarchy of meals. Says Marek Skwarnicki, a Polish journalist and papal friend: "Lunch is for bishops, dinner is for friends...
...have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market -- all hoop-skirts, candlelight and genteel language. In Louisa May Alcott's world, heavy snowfall was a big-time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was omnipresent death, not omnipresent divorce, that threatened childhood's serenity. Can a movie that faithfully reflects this life -- at once harder and more innocent than ours -- and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in our times...
...Union closed for breakfast but re-opened for lunch and dinner, contrary to some reports on TV news. The kitchen was not used yesterday, and food served in the first-year dining hall was prepared at a separate facility...