Word: forme
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...Instead, she got an invitation to join the "official" Breakfast Club, and a form letter signed by the famous director. "I was like, 'Um, excuse me? A form letter?'" Byrne Fields had just confessed her secrets and he didn't have the decency to respond. So she wrote him again and complained. (Read "John Hughes, R.I.P...
...guilt trip worked. "This is not a form letter," Hughes wrote in response. Hughes went on to say he was sorry, that he received a lot of mail and couldn't respond to everything. He enjoyed her letter and would relay the compliment to Nelson. And with that, Alison Byrne Fields and John Hughes became pen pals...
...artist Derek Kirk Kim, revisits those dark places where feelings of self-doubt and shame linger. But rather than centering on ethnic identity this time, The Eternal Smile's trilogy straddles the line between reality and fantasy. In its opening story, "Duncan's Kingdom" (previously published in comic-book form in 1999), a knight embarks on a dangerous mission in order to win the hand of his beloved princess, but along the way gets distracted - in a send-up of the grail quest - by the hunt for something called Snappy Cola. The second story, "Gran'pa Greenbax and the Eternal...
...unquestioned leader of the global economy, is now in the midst of a disorienting shift in economic policy, away from the let-it-rip form of capitalism that has guided it for almost 30 years and toward more overt government control and regulation of huge swaths of the economy. No one yet can safely say whether this is wise, but in the U.S. it is certainly the stuff of increasingly fierce debate. No such doubts are evident in China, where the government reacted to the crisis with alacrity and the economy is now responding in kind...
...take a while, however, to persuade the locals to change their shopping habits. "I'll come here only once in a while," says Dalvinderjit Kaur, a housewife, whose son is filling out a form to get membership at Best Price. "I have shopped at the same kiryana shop for 18 years." There are many reasons customers like Kaur prefer their kiryana shops: they deliver for free, even for small orders; they allow regular customers credit; and they are close by and personal. "He knows us so well," she says. "When my daughter went to America to study, he called...