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...strike by a group of Teamsters at the Interstate Breads Corp. (IBC) plant in Biddleton, Maine has pinched local supplies of Hostess, Wonderbread, Nissen and other bakery products throughout New England, clearing area merchants' shelves and forcing Harvard University Dining Services to look to new sources for its bread...

Author: By Thomas J. Castillo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Strike Causes Bread Product Dearth | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

Duchess Anna was the first hostess in England to invite her friends over for afternoon tea. Her idea evolved into the British tradition. And in 1930, when Lowell House opened under Master Julian Lowell Coolidge, that tradition came to Harvard...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Lowell, Thursdays are a Time for Tea | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...administration toyed with the idea, but several days ago decided to maintain the original limit of 24. They argued that allowing students to have more beer in their room would promote drunkenness--rather like combating obesity by setting a cap on the number of Twinkies and other sundry Hostess snack cakes that...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboards | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...that stood between her front and a nationwide television audience was a shell brooch and a touch of cosmetic glue. Said blushing co-presenter David Duchovny: "This is the first time in five years I am sure nobody is looking at me." After Lopez left the stage, unusually tart hostess Rosie O'Donnell snarled, "It's nice to see Jennifer in a classy little understated number like that. And she wonders why people make fun of her body." Who's making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 6, 2000 | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...much fear, self-doubt, opportunism and ambition in our makeup to expect our frail species to adhere to it. How many loyal free-agent ball players can one name, or publishing executives, or authors? "I do" is a promise of loyalty that often lasts until the first Finnair hostess comes down the aisle. Carville notes that more people turn on Presidents than stick--though there are ways of doing both, as Peter Edelman of the Department of Health and Human Services proved when he waited for the passage of Clinton's welfare bill before resigning because he could not stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stand by Me--for a Moment | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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