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They are inseparable friends but unique from one another on and off the ice. Fried has a quiet, steady demeanor and the 6’3, 210-lb. build to pull it off. He has a legendary work ethic and, in Kolarik’s words, “a heart of gold.” Fried founded the Crimson City Hockey Clinic for underprivileged youths. He’s deadly serious about his schoolwork, but has also written some of Satire V’s outrageously funny articles...
Kolarik, meanwhile, is a 5’10, 195-lb. sparkplug who occasionally makes like Sonic the Hedgehog and skates through people twice his size. He’s the team’s emotional barometer, a vocal leader with a penchant for scoring big goals in big games. He can change the momentum with one shift, whether he scores or not. “The kid’s the heart and soul of our program,” Fried said...
...lb. forward from Michigan, Maki is light on his feet for a big man—“For a big guy, he moves very well,” Mazzoleni said—and equally deft on offense and on the penalty kill. But it’s his offense that has been raising eyebrows in recent days...
...sweet deal--in which Green Mountain guarantees the co-op at least $1.26 per lb. for some of its coffee even though the world price is around 60--also helps the $117 million company position itself as a socially responsible corporate citizen. On 42 of the 100 varieties of coffee that Green Mountain sells in supermarkets, gas stations and offices, it pastes an official seal that reads fair trade certified, proof that it paid a living wage to the growers. "The Taste of a Better World" is Green Mountain's marketing slogan, and its Fair Trade sales grew 92% last...
...clinking beer steins and Wagnerian sopranos of ample girth. It happened that Ted's father was co-owner of the Kalmbach and Geisel Brewery (later, and prudently, changed to the Liberty Brewing Company) in Springfield, Mass., and that his mother's measurements were an imposing six ft. and 200 lb. Further, the family names could have come from any ethnic vaudeville sketch of the period: Schmaelzle and Geisel on his father's side, Greim and Seuss on his mother...