Word: nut
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...shop with its array of “Witch Crossing” shot glasses. Across the street, you can buy witch figurines and candleholders at the local souvenir shop. In Essex Square, the town’s main drag, there is the usual array of fried dough and roasted nut stands common to county fairs everywhere. Salem is much like any other tourist trap, except when you remember what happened here. 25 dead. 200 imprisoned. The trials the Massachusetts State Legislature referred to as “those dark and severe Prosecutions,” when it officially pardoned...
SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT...
...turn, potential buyers can peruse the offerings and are welcome to publicly submit questions to the sellers about the items pre-purchase. “You can sell anything,” says Rapaport. “There is one guy selling an engraved silver double-barrel nut dish—it’s quite a work...
...trainers and stable staff. The riders have demanded that independent mediators review the situation, otherwise they will go to court. Martin Cruddace, lawyer for 110 of the jockeys, says the phone ban infringes their human rights. The Jockey Club, he says, has taken a sledgehammer to crack a nut: "They have admitted that 99.9% of jockeys are honest, so why are they regulating for 0.1%?" The Jockey Club, though, are adamant that some kind of ban must go through. Before the sides reach the finishing post they'll have to talk. They should probably keep their mobiles switched...
...nut shell, there is nothing the RIAA "can" do. Sure, for now they can file lawsuits against 14-year-old children until the cows come home, but there will come a point when the hilarity of that situation will in itself discredit the RIAA. It is a losing battle and unless the record industry plans on spending hundreds of millions of dollars employing hundreds of techs to keep one step ahead of the growing peer-to-peer alliance, they may as well just eat the cost they claim to be incurring now. I for one would...