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...fizzled out. Seereeram was distracted when a partner in his consulting firm was disgraced in a separate financial scandal. Seereeram was turning into a Dickensian figure: the aggrieved claimant in a never-ending dispute over money. This was a character he knew well: Seereeram's father, a sugar-cane farmer, spent 15 years fighting a law that required farmers to surrender a percentage of their profits to the sugar farmers' trade association...
...artificial ingredients, but what's blessed as "natural" can seem arbitrary. The chain is phasing out all goods with hydrogenated fats, meaning no more Pepperidge Farm Goldfish and Carr's crackers. But it sells its own chocolates and cheese puffs. Rationale: the chocolates contain organic cocoa and raw cane sugar, and the cheddar puffs contain real cheese and no artificial colors...
...music as well. Commercial music, he says, feels processed and “very refined,” but English or American or Irish folk is “less processed. When you listen to folk music, it still has that raw edge—like biting into sugar cane...
...secret of the company's success goes back to Gold's childhood in a house full of fussy, formal furniture. "Growing up, we had cane-backed dining-room chairs that really weren't comfortable," says Gold. "We couldn't have a dog. We weren't even allowed to sit in the living room." That helped him appreciate the pleasures of an overstuffed sofa. He met Williams in 1986 in New York City, where Gold spent six years as a furniture buyer for Bloomingdale's and Williams worked as a graphic designer for Seventeen magazine. They both saw the same opportunity...
...Debbie goodnight at her front door, and does it without bending any part of his body - just leaning, as if he were wearing clown shoes for balance. Then he goes into his act. He?s got one prop, an umbrella, and his dance exhausts its every use: as a cane, a pointer, a balancer on the tightrope of a curb, a cyclotron whirling him inside a whirlwind. But often he just holds it - who needs protection from the elements when you?re in love? "Come on with the rain! I?ve a smile on my face...