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...intuition but an admirable doggedness. It doesn't hurtle, it ambles. You will find, on the Internet, documentation about the Wineville Chicken Coop matter, and the criminality of then-Mayor George Cryer as a pawn of the Crawford mob, of the L.A.-wide corruption that makes Al Capone's Chicago a shining city on a hill by comparison. Eastwood is after just the facts, ma'am. Weaving all the true-crime elements into a film of multilayered, Chinatown density either doesn't interest Eastwood and Straczynski or is beyond their skill set. The motto seems...
...free coffee and a tiny-but-cute ice rink), none of her reforms has rippled as widely outside of academia as her move to force Harvard back into the lateral hiring market. Indeed, in her half-decade in office, Kagan has poached 20 tenured professors, among them University of Chicago professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most-cited law professor in the United States. Last year alone, six tenured professors accepted offers to come to Harvard...
Lubricate with Booze. Michael Gonzales, 45, a New York City-based writer, has fond memories of a recent flight from Brussels to Chicago. He was seated next to a chocolate dealer from Texas and the "stewardesses kept giving us champagne," he says...
...been flirting, so I leaned over and kissed her. The next thing I know, we're making out!" Gonzales says. Making out quickly turned into something more acrobatic - let's just say the pair made good use of the legroom between the rows. When the plane touched down in Chicago, Gonzales asked the Texan if she would accompany him to a hotel for a few hours before his connecting flight back to New York. The woman agreed on the condition that he stay the night. "I couldn't do that," Gonzales says, "because I had a girlfriend at home, waiting...
Everything But a Lullaby. Talk about taking your mission seriously. Westin's Chicago River North hotel has installed a testing room - a quasi sleep lab - created in consultation with sleep scientists, dedicated to figuring out how to help guests combat jet lag. It's unadvertised, but the Concept Room has been available to guests to reserve for about a year and has already spawned several sleep-inducing ideas - like blackout curtains - that are now standard in all Westin guest rooms. Another Concept Room program that will soon be rolled out nationwide is Sleep TV, a channel offering guided meditation...