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...waiter was nice, but pretty much in the same way as some kid who knows he is cooler than you, but still doesn’t mind hanging out. He was often absent and most likely did have much better things to do than help us navigate a 14-item menu (15 if you count the one dessert, tiramisu ice cream from Toscanini?...
...April 13, the New York Times front page contained the usual cheery fare: a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, the resignation of a Venezuelan chief and a scandal in the Catholic Church. But there was one item that didn’t quite fit—the announcement that Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 would be departing for Princeton...
...film has one moment of pure magic, at the end, when Sam exits the church where her doped-up sister has just wed some “bohunk” stiff. She ran back inside to fetch a forgotton item, like any dutiful daughter would do, and everyone has disappeared. She stands on the steps alone for a moment, forgotten yet again. But a car passes by and into view comes swaggering, confident Jake Ryan who is there...
...their toilet tank to reduce water flow? Remember how you thought they were crazy? Well, they might have been, but they were right about conserving water. "It does help to put bricks or a quart jug filled with gravel, for example, into the toilet tank," says Swistock. "A heavy item like that displaces a quart or more of water - and that's one less quart of water the toilet needs to refill itself." Once you've mastered water displacement, try another, even more challenging conservation measure: Don't flush every time. "If it's yellow, let it mellow...
...Your item "Gas Not Included," on Jerry Seinfeld's 20 Porsches and their new custom-designed garage, made me wonder [PEOPLE, March 18]: What if Seinfeld were a 19th century prince in a tiny kingdom where most people lived in mean little hovels and were being pushed off the land by rich landowners who wanted more stables for their horses? Would the peasants eventually revolt and take over the stables? What a pity there's no precedent for revolutions aimed at media stars, America's version of the ruthless, greedy ruling classes. PATTI LOWERY Baltimore...