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...this maelstrom, Gorbachev somehow found time and privacy for romance. Male and female students lived on the same floors, though they had separate sleeping and bathroom facilities. Gorbachev and his roommates drew up a complicated schedule guaranteeing each of them one hour alone in the room every week to entertain a female guest. On the hall bulletin board, the periods of privacy were discreetly designated "cleaning hours...
Those who like to entertain with "slightly different" dishes should be pleased by Gene Hovis's Uptown Down Home Cookbook (Little, Brown; 235 pages; $17.95). This culinary memoir is built around the foods of the author's North Carolina childhood, but it also encompasses recipes that Hovis developed in a career as a New York City food stylist and caterer -- chicken breasts in orange-cognac sauce, or a watercress, cucumber and avocado soup...
...Here? -- Lawyer, personable, nice job, great wife, cute kid, very happily married . . . (well, reasonably happy, I mean, O.K., I'm fortyish and I don't even want to think about approaching mid-life, let alone a mid- life crisis, but still) . . . seeks . . . (no, not 'seeks,' maybe 'is willing to entertain the notion of meeting') . . . attractive woman who might want to spend a weekend over drinks, dinner and dishes. Or not. Your call. Uh, wait! Don't call -- at home or the office. Instead, write me if you want...
...artwork on the cereal box was meant to entertain breakfast eaters, but it wound up appalling some of them instead. A new package for General Mills' Count Chocula breakfast cereal features a rendering of Bela Lugosi from the 1931 film Dracula. Around the vampire's neck hangs a pendant that resembles a six-pointed Star of David, the symbol of Judaism. When the boxes first appeared in stores last month, offended shoppers complained to the Minneapolis-based company. After the Cleveland Jewish News (circ. 15,000) picked up the story, General Mills agreed to change the box cover...
Among the issues the poster lists are a "petition for a new academic calendar" and "easy access to university policy, esp. financial." Chedaya said she chose to emphasize issues rather than try to entertain potential voters because she "believe[s] in the intelligence of the Harvard University students...