Word: comforting
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...holiday season at Banana Republic's main branch in San Francisco and the store will provide you with a lift home. Want to avoid the hassle of Christmas-gift buying altogether? Seattle-based Nordstrom's will give you a personal shopper, who will make selections while you sit in comfort and watch...
...very easy to propose one-sided solutions from the comfort and safety of Cambridge. The rejection of Oslo, which acknowledged a basis for negotiation by all involved in the peace process in the Middle East, causes no shock waves on the Charles. In the Middle East, however, this Rejectionist position is held only by Hamas and the Most right-wing Israeli political parties. Compromises are not one-sided, and only by avoiding Simple rejectionist roles and understanding the perspective of our negotiating partners can we work together to reach a modus vivendi more suitable for all. BETH GOLDSTEIN'99 MIRIAM...
Finally, at the Yale game, it does not matter, with whom one normally associates. We're all in the same boat. Even the final club guys must leave the comfort of their secretive houses to tailgate in the muddy parking lot with the rest of us. The Game is truly the great equalizer of Harvard College...
...would have been small comfort to Sandi to know she was not alone. Children of every age cry themselves to sleep over rebuffs, both physical and emotional, suffered at the hands of their peers. Some of the tears--as well as the acts of cruelty that provoke them--are as inevitable and as fleeting as growing pains. And parents want to believe their love can wipe away the rest. But a series of recent books has roiled the waters and caused parents to wonder anew whether they can ward off the ill effects of getting in with "the wrong crowd...
That the new chef has come from Mistral is less than shocking. The food is not aiming for haute cuisine, but it is far from simple. The new Harvest menu rests in the trendy nexus of haute comfort food, with such offerings as "Fried Green Tomatoes with Peeky Toe Crab and Spicy Cucumber Louis Sauce ($13)." Fried green tomatoes, sure, yet peeky-toe crab radically changes the complexion of the dish. Foie gras from Hudson Valley is another appetizer, toned down into a 'sandwich' on homemade brioche with pancetta and dried cherries ($14). Alternatively, a dish enigmatically billed as "Pumpkin...