Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children's bonds to gamble on a discount pharmacy. The venture thrived and grew into the Dart drugstore chain, which the Hafts went on to parlay into a retailing conglomerate. With $1.2 billion in sales today and about 600 outlets in seven states, the Hafts' Dart Group, which includes Crown Books and Trak Auto stores, has kept the family in Range Rovers and Florida and California mansions and at charity balls. But now a family feud of operatic dimensions has erupted, threatening to undo all that the Hafts have worked so fiercely for. "Herbert is likely to burn everything down...
Fires in the Mirror portrayed a specific conflict between blacks and Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, a sui generis neighborhood of Brooklyn. Twilight, by contrast, is sprawling. It embraces complex social, economic and political issues. It concerns events that involved millions of people and captured attention around the world. It portrays perhaps the most diverse place in America and asks whether such a place -- such a purported model for the national future -- can survive. For every character onstage, Smith debriefed six more who didn't make the cut, including the mayor, Hollywood stars and a U.S. Senator...
...prices are lower than Herrell's and Steve's, but make no mistake. In a lesser city than Cambridge, Toscanini's would be considered an ice cream crown jewel. As it is, it's still a gem--and you can see them making the ice cream through the window next door...
First female jockey to win a Triple Crown race...
Berkery has played for Harvard (incredibly, the only college that recruited her for lacrosse) since her freshman year, when the team defeated Maryland 8-7 for an NCAA crown, Berkery asserted herself as a precious freshman when she scored the tying goal to cap Harvard's amazing comeback...