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...soul hits as the Ohio Players' Love Rollercoaster). But like My Wife, Mac rarely mentions race--a sharp contrast to the netlet shows, which load their scripts with in-jokes. And unlike, say, The Jeffersons, the show treats Mac's wealth matter-of-factly, not as a setup for fish-out-of-water jokes (rich black people! imagine!). "Bernie Mac doesn't need to remind us that he's black," says Wilmore. "We know that already...
...December and is pending in the House. The measure was specifically aimed at competition from Vietnamese farmers who raise a variety of catfish in flooded rice paddies and sell them for attractive prices: about $1.80 a lb. wholesale, vs. $2.80 for U.S.-farmed catfish. Called basa, the Vietnamese fish account for about 20% of catfish fillets sold in the U.S., up from 7% in 1997. "These fish are being pawned off as catfish to unsuspecting American consumers," argued Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson, who co-sponsored the legislation against basa, and whose state happens to be a major site of catfish...
...December and is pending in the House. The measure was specifically aimed at competition from Vietnamese farmers who raise a variety of catfish in flooded rice paddies and sell them for attractive prices: about $4.00 a kilo wholesale, vs. $5.60 for U.S.-farmed catfish. Called basa, the Vietnamese fish account for about 20% of catfish fillets sold in the U.S., up from 7% in 1997. "These fish are being pawned off as catfish to unsuspecting American consumers," argued Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson, who co-sponsored the legislation against basa, and whose state happens to be a major site of catfish...
...arrests leaked out and put a freeze on information related to the case. The Rome-based daily La Repubblica quoted an angry Italian intelligence source: "This affair is damn serious, and some big mouths have blown it. Now we have seven Moroccans who are barely talking, and the big fish are still at large." By the end of the week, an Interior Ministry official confirmed that a total of nine Moroccan immigrants had been taken into custody on suspicion of being part of the Rome-based terrorist cell. But at least one big fish didn't get away...
...slightly different. The first year at Harvard is difficult for a lot of people, as previously unchallenged playwrights find themselves jockeying for position, attention and affection with 1600 other spotlight hounds. The common warning frequently given to incoming Harvard students—about adjusting to being a small fish in a big pond—completely misses the crux of the transition. The problem, in reality, is more about crowding a lot of big fish into a small pond...