Word: mint
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...moment, courtesy of Philip Short, a gifted biographer who knows his communists. (His acclaimed Mao: A Life ran nearly 800 pages.) After Mao's banquet of tyrannies?the Great Leap Forward alone killed more than 20 million Chinese?the Khmer Rouge leader should have been a mere after-dinner mint for Short. But Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, the first biography of the dictator since his death in 1998, weighs in at 650-plus pages, and is the most definitive...
...truth foretold. After lashing the Yankees in four straight games, the Red Sox went on to slaughter the Cardinals in a four game sweep. Boston?s height of glory came when they vanquished their archrival at Yankee Stadium on October 20. The Cardinals were an after dinner mint of sorts - and even the Sox didn?t chew on it gracefully. Both teams had low moments in the brief series, but the Sox pitching prevailed leaving the Cardinals empty-handed at the plate. So it was that the Boston Red Sox of 2004 became world champions of baseball...
...fledgling entrepreneur, Rich joined forces with Princeton graduates Jeremy Kahn and Jonathan Harris to develop a mint marketable beyond the Ivy League, in what he calls “the luxury consumables” sector...
...People will pay four dollars for a cup of coffee, even though it’s something that has been around for hundreds of years,” Rich says. “I figured that in the mint market, if we could make a really good mint that was also a fashion accessory, people would...
...moment came when talking to a friend trying to cut back on cigarettes. “He told me he just couldn’t get over the oral fixation,” Rich recalls. Instantly the idea crystallized in his head: “why not make a mint picking up on that psychological connection...