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Seven minutes of self-congratulation later, the chocolate soja arrived. We’d already experienced the joy of the café cortado, a shot of espresso cut with a small amount of milk, and that of Cola Cao, a Nesquik-like chocolate powder added to hot milk. But this? We wanted to bathe in this...
Hamburger sent an impassioned e-mail to department administrators at King’s College London protesting the university’s proposed elimination of their chair of palaeography—the study of ancient writing—as part of a 15 percent budget cut mandated by the British government for all British universities, according to David Ganz, professor of paleography at King’s College...
...sidewalk. You’re spooning some tater tots. You’ve left the class. So then what? If you say “K, bye!” it’s abrupt and awkward. If you try to actually have a conversation, it inevitably gets cut off. So you preempt an uncertain and potentially uncomfortable response with “Let’s do lunch,” and the person automatically agrees. You walk away commitment-free...
...spouse is pretty much the only person you can't cut out of a will," says Wynne Whitman, an estate-planning lawyer in New Jersey. Although the law differs from state to state, attorneys say statutes and courts tend to favor surviving spouses in determining inheritances, especially if there are minor children. (The Hoppers have a 6-year-old.) The court might even posthumously change a prenuptial agreement, which the Hoppers also have and which Victoria Hopper is challenging...
...smuggling boom may soon be over, as Egypt constructs a subterranean steel wall along the border, designed to cut off the network of tunnels that have kept both Gaza and the Bedouin afloat - a move that will antagonize the tribes in a tinderbox region...