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...societal trends into greeting cards. So a few years ago, when Hallmark's marketing group looked into its demographic crystal ball and saw 78 million baby boomers hitting age 50, the company created boxes and boxes of friendship, birthday, anniversary and thinking-of-you cards, all designed to subtly flatter the aging boomer's flagging middle-aged ego. Shipped to Hallmark stores in 2000, the Time of Your Life line of cards was displayed in its own section and featured active midlifers looking youthful as they frolicked on beaches and dived into swimming pools. "We had done...
...scholar, who lived long ago and far away. As Xunzi said, in the third century B.C.E.: “Those who have good reason to find fault with me are my teachers; those who have good reason to find me praiseworthy are my friends; and those who flatter me do me injury...
...Francisco (Ozumo), they're also making a comeback in Japan. Sasano, in the Akasaka entertainment district of Tokyo, is a current hot spot. Regulars sit at the wood-slab bar in the nouveau-Japanese restaurant, where manager Miwa Taguchi recommends selections from the 70 sake choices to flatter each dish a diner orders. Connoisseurs start with a daiginjo such as Higan from Niigata prefecture, which boasts a pretty transparency and refreshing taste that goes well with salty burdock-root chips. The distinctive ginjo-grade Suiro is a good balance for tempura pork. Premium sakes like these are usually served chilled...
...Sakagura) and San Francisco (Ozumo), they're making a comeback in Japan. Sasano, in the Akasaka entertainment district of Tokyo, is a current hot spot. Regulars sit at the wood-slab bar in the nouveau-Japanese restaurant, where manager Miwa Taguchi recommends selections from the 70 sake choices to flatter each dish a diner orders. Connoisseurs start with a daiginjo like Higan from Niigata prefecture, which boasts a pretty transparency and refreshing taste that goes well with salty burdock-root chips. The distinctive ginjo-grade Suiro is a good balance for tempura-fried pork. Premium sakes like these are usually...
While far from endearing, perhaps the two men flatter themselves that they shall be able to do some good in this latest attempt—sponsored by the private yet official-sounding Council on Foreign Relations—to mend recent diplomatic failures through an exhaustive report on the situation. But no such report will be exhaustive if it fails to take note of the role these fellows have played...