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Forget Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey and Rainforest Crunch. The next hot new flavor at Ben & Jerry's Homemade could be called Lock-'n'-Load Rocky Road. The quirky maker of superpremium ice cream began the new year by scooping up gun-industry executive Perry Odak to fill a two-month vacancy as its new CEO. Odak most recently was chief operating officer of U.S. Repeating Arms Co., the maker of Winchester rifles, and he brings 25 years of consumer-marketing savvy to Ben & Jerry's (est. 1996 sales: $175 million), which could sorely use some executive firepower...
...While The New Yorker praised that “Jimmy Corrigan” was “viciously depressing” in the best sense of art, a friend of mine put it best: “Reading ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ made me want to lock myself in and gain 30 pounds...
...elements, is covered over by other works or is taken away ("buffed" is the term). "I've had dogs s___ on my work," says Leon Reid, a.k.a. Darius Jones, 26, who makes tiny anthropomorphic figures out of bricks that he mostly places at ground level. "I've had people lock their bikes to pieces I've made. But I guess that's part of what this is all about...
...almost quaint touch, but you aren't shifting anything: the shifter is merely a lever that signals some other mechanical minion to go into reverse. There's also a remote-entry system that lets you unlock the doors and start the car without inserting a key in the lock or ignition. You wouldn't want to exert yourself...
Aside from the purely financial aspects, athletic scholarships would open up a Pandora’s Box of equality issues, wouldn’t do much to lock a student into a sport—due to the prevalence of financial aid for those who can’t afford the hefty price tag—and it could foster and extend the perceived gap between student-athletes and student-cellists, student-governors, student-journalists, and the like...