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...Milan, Courchevel, with a bit of luxury-travel news at the back. The writers are knowledgeable, but fond of words and phrases that went out with steamer trunks; NB praises a Toronto hotel for its "unguents" (that's soaps and shampoo to the rest of us) and describes how chic Torontonians "tend to have pre-dinner drinks in the restaurant at which they are dining and remove to a hotel bar afterwards." If that charms you, grab a copy of NB, remove to a wing chair and luxuriate in the unctuous prose - these travelers know what they're talking about...
...past three seasons, Oakland has been the chic pick of baseball experts around the nation. The majority of ESPN analysts last season predicted the A’s to win the World Series. A win over the Twins in the first round last year was guaranteed. And for the past three years, Oakland has been sent packing after round...
...maybe…maybe the chic pick is actually the weak pick. (Or, at least, that joke was weak...
...France. "The country is a natural home for Starbucks." Sure. But the French café is also a natural home for the cigarette. Starbucks insists its non-smoking policy won't put off locals. But Jean-Marie Galut, a manager at Café Le Paris in the city's chic 15th arrondissement, serves up a traditional line. "Customers come for the professional man in a bow tie who puts your receipt under the ashtray," he says. But that was before the frappuccino. Dirty Money Officials in Moscow ordered a finance magazine to remove its ads from public spaces after complaints...
Brenda Lee, you simple simpleton. Albert Pujols, MVP? Over Barry Bonds? Pujols may be 16 years younger and the chic pick, but the award is given to the most valuable player. No one is more valuable than Bonds, to any team—possibly in the history of Major League Baseball...