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Saturday night Dining Services will serve itsfirst dinner--Saigon sizzle, chicken with bowtiesand corn chowder, among other items...
...National Committee and that a financial-services concern that wanted to squash a consumer-protection clause would feel inspired to support the campaign of Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. He wasn't opposed to the system; he was opposed to ethanol. He believed that using corn for anything but feeding people or livestock was against the laws of nature...
...pathos. The reason for his appeal is that he's so brilliant at being bad; his pranks have a showman's panache. When he drives off in what is touted as Hitler's car, he chortles, "It's Fuhrer-ific!" After impishly filling Groundskeeper Willie's shack with creamed corn, he listens to Willie curse, "You did it, Bart Simpson!" and murmurs, with practiced modesty, "The man knows quality work...
...Urubamba River, halfway between the city of Cuzco and the far better-known ruins of Machu Picchu. It is among the few remaining communities still laid out as the Incas planned: by night its residents sleep behind inward-slanting stone doorframes characteristic of Incan design; by day they farm corn and potatoes on the immense terraces their forebears carved out of the Andean slopes...
...porters along the nearby Inca Trail, sprinting on rubber-tire sandals or ragged sneakers past winded trekkers while carrying huge boxes and packs. Today is the fair, and the menfolk have gathered to barter for goods while women sit in circles, gossiping and sharing home-brewed chicha, or corn beer. We hike above the straw-roofed adobe huts, along the terraces that stretch across the face of the slope and 1,000 feet up, as impressive as any of the more frequently visited ruins. Clouds dip in over the peaks across the valley as I sit listening to my guide...