Word: breakfasting
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...following morning I took a ten-mile run in a placid valley beneath the Green Mountains-a stream, a junkyard dog, an 18th-century one-room schoolhouse, a falconry camp, farms, farms, more farms-then enjoyed a nice breakfast drenched in the world?s best maple syrup and, after shopping, pointed the Honda south. I decided to take the shunpikes down to Brattleboro, hotting village after village. In funky Jamacia, Vermont, I stopped and bought the kids some maple moose pops at the general store. The longhaired kid at the cash register was talking Sox with...
...over? Partly by disguise. Rowling dresses her dead-serious battle of good versus evil in the sensibilities of the ironic age. “Anyone we know dead?” Harry’s best friend, Ron, asks every morning when the Daily Prophet flies to their Hogwarts breakfast table. Ron’s mother, Mrs. Weasley, has always had a magical nine-handed clock to monitor the whereabouts of every member of her family (“home,” “school,” “work...
...call it, are profound. Tobias says she has stopped avoiding her children. "I was getting up in the morning, rushing to get out of the door before my kids were awake," she says. If her children, ages 4 and 2, saw her, they would beg her to stay for breakfast. Now, because her quarterly goals are very clearly spelled out, she knows exactly what she has to finish in a given week--negotiate a rental-car contract or audit expense reports, for example. She can decide how and when to do it. If she wants to have a leisurely breakfast...
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor turned high-end security consultant, happened to be eating breakfast in a London hotel when the bombs went off. He praised the calm, professional response he saw on the streets. But no part of him was surprised: "The attack was exactly what we were expecting back in the mid-'90s." --Reported by Jessica Carsen/London, John Flowers, Stephen Handelman and Nathan Thornburgh/ New York, Noah Isackson/ Chicago, Laura A. Locke/ San Francisco and Mark Thompson/ Washington
...when you return from the beach, you'll find your bedroom decorated with 1,000 red roses. Woods can order up a white stallion to deliver a wedding ring or strolling classical guitarists to set the mood. She also offers cooking lessons to teach newlywed men how to make breakfast in bed. But achieving the right effect is no quick fling for Woods: "To create a truly intimate moment with lasting impact, we need many personal insights, and that takes time." A resort favorite is a candle made from the flower of the Queen of the Night cactus, which...