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...than frozen lamb and vast slabs of bland cheddar cheese. The past 20 years have seen an explosion of creativity among Kiwi chefs, restaurateurs and winemakers, as well as growing appreciation of the purity of the country's produce - a bankable quality in these times of genetic tomfoolery and junk food. Gourmands heading south over the next few months will be in for a treat, as New Zealand enters its season of food and wine festivals. These kick off on Nov. 16 in the wine region of Martinborough, with the Toast Martinborough drinkathon. Your chances of attending are slim...
...Eagles’ opponent last Saturday was Notre Dame, the scene could quite comfortably have been pulled from Rudy. Burberry? Check. Pashminas in school colors? Check. Lily-white Catholic kids listening to 50-cent? Check. The tailgate featured well-behaved if moderately inebriated students and their parents, eating junk food out of the backs of brand new SUV’s on a lawn outside the stadium. Though plenty of alcohol seemed to be consumed, the majority of empty beer bottles were neatly discarded in the available trash receptacles, and the grunting battle cries of frat boys were remarkably rare...
After running out of junk food during an early morning smoking marathon in the Hamptons on Sunday, several members of the Fly momentarily faced deprivation for the first time in their lives. Thankfully the instincts of privilege kicked in just in time to save them—the guys ended up breaking into a neighbor’s house and stealing several boxes of cookies while the family was sleeping soundly upstairs. Says Joel S. Jacobs ’04, “Larceny is all about getting in your zone: I pretended the cookies were a loosely monitored state...
...rival 24-hour locale 7-eleven, costumers were stunned to find out that CVS was now open around the clock. “Sometimes you need more than junk food,” says Michael P. Marotta ’06, who also expressed relief at being able to find paper clips and deodorant in the wee hours of the night. Brynn A. Bowman ’06 had better reason to frequent CVS over 7-eleven. “I like the people at CVS better than the people at 7-eleven,” Bowman shared, though...
...served in Bill Clinton's Labor Department, then went home to Michigan and ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1998. "I learned during the campaign there was one overpowering issue for inner-city parents: to get their kids a college education," Ross told me. "I was tired of theoretical policy junk; I wanted to do something that really mattered. It was clear that urban kids were not responding to the industrial-age assembly-line education model-and there were people around the country who had figured out how to educate kids in a more humane, customized...