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...Alyson Denny '85 stirs an enormous wok full of green peppers in the kitchen, a large cassette player fills the room with the sounds of jazz piano, while another student chef rolls out graham cracker dough for the evening dessert. Other coopers wander in to find out what's for dinner, or actually just to hang out. The conversation runs from thesis topics to music...
...deceptive, or that it has more to hide? That would be uncharitable, perhaps unfair. Consider it instead a perfectly understandable desire to think well of oneself and of one's work. Isn't everyone counseled to think positively, to look on the bright side, to observe the dough nut rather than the hole, to see that a half-empty glass is really half full? In a time of uncertainty, it is possible to give the Government the benefit of the doubt, just as any citizen customarily gives the same benefit to himself. After all, as the saying goes...
...Manhattan, the key questions facing the jury were purely factual ones. Was Guide Gault-Millau correct in asserting that the pancakes served with his Peking duck were "the size of a saucer and the thickness of a finger"? Was it true that his "sweet-and-sour pork contained more dough (badly cooked) than meat," as the pugnacious Parisian guide to New York City proclaimed? To prove otherwise, Chow brought his chef into Manhattan federal district court to demonstrate to the jury his technique for making paper-thin pancakes...
...rally to stem a run on its deposits. About a thousand citizens gathered in Midland's Civic Center, many of them wearing lapel stickers that proclaimed I'M CONFIDENT. Oilman John Redfern Jr. told the crowd, "I hope you'll rake around, find some dough and put it in the bank tomorrow...
...fellas, any of you got any extra money to spare?" said Gary Hart sheepishly as he cupped his hands. "It seems that I'm a little short this week, again. But I swear that I've got a lot of dough coming my way. There are some friends of mine who owe me big money...