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...didn't begin until the Fat Guys started singing. When Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, along with a 200-strong orchestra, wowed 'em with vocal skyrockets like Nessun dorma, opera hit high C--and a merchandising concept was born...
SHEEP'S MILK Compared with standard cow's-milk yogurts, we thought sheep's-milk yogurt was thin. Old Chatham Sheepherding Company's full-fat plain yogurt was not very creamy--it tasted almost watery--and had a sharp, tangy flavor...
...would be logical to him because he is adding value for shareholders. Weill works tirelessly. The companies he took over were either in desperate shape or fat, dumb and happy; he made them lean and mean--and spread stock options through the ranks. Langley's Weill is deal hungry, overcompensated and, when necessary, cold blooded. He famously ousted his respected protege and potential successor at Citigroup, Jamie Dimon (now CEO of Bank One), to preserve his own power...
...least successful tales are the one-joke pieces like "God," where the Almighty appears to a "painfully average" office drone in the guise of a fat man floating on air. The joke is that God appears as a fat man. Snooze-ville. A sharp editor would have axed it in favor of expanding some of the other stories that seem under-developed. "Cake," for example, about a disgruntled teacher who starts sharing urine-spiked cakes with his co-workers, strains to keep its head above the quicksand of the central sick joke. Only at the end does it start...
...After the son's arrest, the two missing men were traced to the house in Rawalpindi where Mohammed was eventually arrested. "We weren't sure we had the right man," said a Pakistani officer involved in the raid. "He wasn't at all like his photos; he seemed fat and droopy." But when Mohammed's fingerprints were checked eight hours later, the Pakistanis knew they had their prey. To the unconcealed delight of U.S. officials, the other captured man proved to be Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, the alleged paymaster of the Sept. 11 hijackers...