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Hawthorne's birthplace and the House of Seven Gables, which inspired his novel of that name, sit side by side a few blocks from the Custom House...
...supposedly normal expectation, I am delighted with every aspect of this event, and I'd be pleased to see it last a few more days, perhaps a year. One reason has to do with ceremony. You remember Yeats' lines in "A Prayer for My Daughter"--"How but in custom and in ceremony/Are innocence and beauty born?" I like the idea that all these contributing professionals--the gown person, the cake person, the flowers person, the food person, the tent person, the music person, the God person--are coming together for an ancient purpose. They each know what to do. They...
...This custom changed in the late '60s as the relationship between students and the University became more antagonistic...
...busy consumers hire a maid to clean their homes, wondered entrepreneur David MacKay, wouldn't they pay someone to come over and make dinner? Voila, the Personal Chef Association was born. Formed in 1991 with five chefs, the organization has mushroomed to 1,400, with 10 to 20 customers each. These culinary fairy godmothers prepare custom meals that cost about $7 to $8 a person, and need only a quick, 15-min. warm-up in the oven. "It's a service whose time has come," says MacKay. "What's for dinner is a problem in this country...
...shelling out $15 for the CD only to discover that the rest of the album isn't fit for listening. Now there's a remedy. A new crop of Websites lets discerning fans mix and match from a long list of digital cuts to make their own custom CDs. At musicmaker.com you can assemble a personal hit parade from 150,000 tracks, from rock to gospel (cost: $9.95 for the first five tracks and $1 for each additional). Edgier cductive.com offers a smaller (4,000 titles), more specialized selection with an emphasis on hip-hop and techno, while supersonicboom.com boasts...