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...Olive Garden and Chili's hinders that dynamism, local cuisine is not gone yet. "There is no national hot-dog chain," says Stern. "That's because people are so loyal to the hot dog with which they grew up." So maybe we're not quite Europe. That doesn't mean we don't care about our food...
...Just because you've never been mugged doesn't mean it doesn't happen. A guy like John might not have to worry too much, but what about a 100-pound girl? She's got to walk just as far. There aren't any special roads for her. And it isn't safe.” (Can we get special, predator-free roads for the ladies, please? Have Smith and Hammonds thought about this...
...mean, fair is fair...
...into a two-year post. "The focus here is simply on getting fresh thinking, fresh eyes on the problem." But McChrystal's role in the friendly-fire death of former NFL star Pat Tillman - as well as prisoner abuses allegedly committed on his watch at Baghdad's Camp Nama - mean his Senate confirmation might not go as smoothly (or swiftly) as Gates hopes. (Read Joe Klein's take on McKiernan's Afghan exit...
...everyone sees it that way. Fernando Justo, who works for an organization that certifies the Portuguese pigs of Presunto de Barrancos, hinted darkly at the "economic interests" behind the Russian ban, by which, one imagines, he can only mean a sort of ham protectionism. Taking advantage of a break in the proceedings to snack on a ham sandwich, he said: "People who are less educated will give it up at first. But that will pass...