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Considered the ultimate boy's toy, the Ferrari represents the pinnacle of success, for those willing to pay the price. It has been a collector's item for wealthy Italians like Gianni Agnelli and Roberto Rossellini and European royalty such as Baron de Rothschild and the Aga Khan. After Hollywood gave it a starring role in The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968, a legion of iconic owners, including Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Steve McQueen, followed...
...mouse with a maid. He reveals nothing, offering instead a fantasy creature: a nocturnal, poetic avatar. Is the book an attempt to get people to pay $50 for the companion CD of Princely after-hours recordings, Indigo Nights, or to elevate music to a new luxury item? As Prince might say, that...
...little bit. With a name that is the same as an item that hangs clothes on a washing line, you're going to get it. The worst was when it went into the realm of pig. But I chose to be called Pegg. I wasn't born with the name. I took it on when my mother remarried. So it's my own fault...
...Consultants have spent the equivalent of entire geologic ages trying to come up with the one item every candidate deeply pines for: the devastating one-liner. To be really devastating, the line must appear to be true, clever and, especially, spontaneous. So teams of moonlighting Hollywood comedy writers have been churning out ideas for weeks. The classic of the genre is Ronald Reagan's retort to Jimmy Carter in 1980: "There you go again." But nothing is worse than an overlabored gotcha line that falls horribly flat, so spin doctors must first do no harm. Part of this...
...dining services needs to address “the challenge a quiet and surprisingly large contingent of our community faces with eating disorders.” “Those individuals can place an undue emphasis on calories and other literal food values, making their placement over every food item a real challenge,” he wrote. “We did what we felt best addressed the special health needs of those individuals.” Although the nutritional information, which included number of calories, serving size, grams of fat, and grams of carbohydrates, is no longer displayed...