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Bronson said that there will also be new vendors, and a greater variety of concessions from which to choose. In addition to the usual--pizza, sausage, cotton candy, popcorn and hot dogs--the vendors will offer homemade chicken soup, Legal Seafood's clam chowder and lobster salad sandwiches...
...stereotype. In the Yard, I get close. I remember what my first guide through campus said--"this is where all the shit went down 350 years ago"--and I think Puritans and Emerson and then...then I see Canaday. Then the Science Center, which I'm just sure Cotton Mather would not have approved. It's hard to live a simple life of Samurai parties and tank tops on a campus that collects buildings like art--seeking a diversity of classical, romantic and abstract. Our history is too deep, our endowment too rich and our student body too neurotic...
...does, in the Disney comedy-adventure Aladdin, produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Boy meets, loses and gets Girl in an Arabian kingdom of cotton-candy palaces, tiger-mouthed pyramids, wicked viziers, larcenous monkeys, misanthropic parrots, a truly magic carpet and a genie who changes shapes and personalities faster than you can say . . . Robin Williams! An enthralling new world...
GREGORY O'DANIEL WAS READY TO play a role in getting the economy back on the road to recovery. The Pennsylvania businessman wanted to lease new machinery and hire a dozen more employees so that his two-year-old firm, Tempco USA, could boost its production of cosmetic cotton pads and facial tissues. But O'Daniel needed financing to do that, so he went to his local bank for a $300,000 line of credit. His company has an unblemished credit history and has been ringing up $600,000 in monthly sales to such customers as Wal-Mart...
Born in poverty, uneducated, Menchu became a farm laborer as a small child, tending corn and beans on her parents' tiny plot and traveling with them to the south to work on coffee, cotton and sugar plantations. She did not even learn to speak Spanish until she was 20. But the world learned her story with the 1983 publication of her autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu, which eventually appeared in 11 languages. It tells of Quiche life in the mountains and the domination of the Indians, who make up 60% of the population, by the minority Ladinos, mostly the descendants...