Word: may
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...have entered the Twilight Zone. Yes, this may be the weirdest news week ever. The newsroom and the wires were full of oddities this week--oddities that were sometimes just utterly ludicrous and at other times sad and scary. In case you missed...
...become stuck, if you get my meaning, in between the toilet and seat. (I'm somewhat embarrassed even to be recounting or summarizing this story.) As a result of the incident which led to his injury, he has filed suit against Starbucks. Some accounts say he and his wife may now be unable to have children. He reportedly wants $1 million for himself--and another $500,000 for her. (Why does she get only half what he gets? Go figure...
Some say that the answer lies in an overdose of political correctness--the high school administration was eager to appease the anger of a group of minority students and so just cancelled the play out of hand. That may be part of it, but the larger answer is that everyone involved in this controversy is suffering an overdose of incorrect assumptions...
These more subtle modes of discrimination may not be as visible to those not directly affected...
...hope is that the world's largest restaurant chain can corner the high end of the fast-food market, while allowing the upstart to benefit from a global marketing infrastructure. At the same time, if Micky D's can pluck the rotisserie chicken chain from Chapter 11, the public may be spared further "go healthy" experiments such as the Arch Deluxe and the McLean sandwich. On the flip side, Boston Chicken, which fell into a free fall when it added sandwiches and kids' meals in an attempt to keep up with the Dave Thomases, could be allowed to focus...