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...until they reduce to a 10W40-like sauce), partly not (the result of customers being wusses who don't like dark-roasted coffee). Pike Place aims to fix this through technique (Pike Place is not supposed to sit for more than 30 minutes) and blending (it aims for a lighter, brighter mix of beans). The aim is a cup that's more broadly friendly, less overwhelming, more (though they would probably never say this) like Dunkin Donuts...
...sharp contrast to NATO's Riga summit in 2006. "The tone of the discussion is a lot lighter now than it was two years ago," says a NATO official. "Then the whole thing appeared to hang by a thread." In the Latvian capital, tensions ran high over the inequitable commitments of NATO members to military operations in Afghanistan - what the countries with sizable troop deployments in dangerous areas refer to as "burden sharing." Those tensions remain, but a commitment by France to send up to 1,000 troops to eastern Afghanistan, made before this summit and confirmed on Thursday...
...plays Juror #7, whose main motive for voting guilty is his desire to wrap up the deliberation so he can see the Yankees game that night. His character, complete with a New York accent and a Yankee fan’s overconfidence, is the source of many of the lighter moments in the play. By contrast, Juror #9 (Gus T. Hickey ’11) commands the attention and empathy of both the jury and the audience when he, an old man himself, earnestly describes what it feels like to be elderly and overlooked. Runcie and Young?...
...idea of buildings that seem to dematerialize, that play hide and seek as you approach them. One of his most influential designs was for an unbuilt skyscraper in Paris, the Endless Tower. Envisioned as a structure rising to over 1300 ft. (400 m.), its surface would shift to ever lighter materials, from granite to aluminum to stainless steel and finally glass, appearing to disappear as it ascended into...
...sure, the Mafia still runs Sicily. But like the IRA it is an anodyne force. It is moving into white-collar crime - where the real money is and the sentences are lighter...