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...Luci?s question was equally rhetorical to my three; when she asks a thing like ?What d?ya think about going to Disney?? it is already asked and answered. And so, on Saturday last, K.T. of the local cab service drove up our driveway in his Suburban and we loaded in our team. Caroline, six, and Jack and Mary Grace, three apiece, were electric with anticipation. Lucille, age withheld, and our nanny Wendy, eternally youthful, were happy if anxious. I, a newly minted AARP member - hey, I?m not proud; it saved me a c-note on my Orlando minivan...
...proposition that had been offered by my lovely wife, Lucille, was: What would I think about spending February school break in a house in Orlando with her mother, sister, sister?s family, and other assorted in-laws, for the purpose of taking the kids to Disney World? I who had been weaned on winter vacations at cozy New England ski lodges - mittens and hearths and hot chocolate with marshmallows - thought this a truly horrid idea. My mind was instantly aswim with visions of large stuffed creatures scaring the beejeezus out of Mary Grace (one of our twins) and of lines...
...Brady shirt and was reminded of our recent New England triumph on the gridiron, I jumped to the fact that pitchers and catchers were even now reporting to Florida and how the Sox look so very strong this season. And, well, I thought: Hey, Disney World During School Vacation Week is a kind of iconic, All American topic like Sox-v-Yankees, and perhaps a bit of blogging is in order. The editors at Time.com, obviously with a dry well this week, bit. So here...
...hundred kilometers from Shanghai that exports some of the world's sexiest lace bras. On his shop floor, surrounded by 200 young workers outfitted in pink kerchiefs and aprons, Yang points to the wall on which he has taped a laminated list of rules issued by Walt Disney Co., with which Asset Underwear contracts to make clothing featuring Disney characters. The list prohibits, among other things, indentured servitude and "slavery." Yang thinks that's funny. His laborers come from villages across China to work 8-to-10-hour days for up to $120 a month and consider that a good...
Calling for AT&T Mergers are like buses: you wait ages for one, and then three show up. Hostile bids - Comcast's for Disney, Sanofi's for Aventis - are reviving the mergers...