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...early 1960s followed the most sustained period of affluence and growth in American history. My generation was heir to that affluence, and everybody thought that the world was America's oyster. With that kind of economy, almost anything seemed possible," says Miller...
Perhaps the most delectable oyster invention of all belongs to Karl Beckley, 34, who combines the mollusks with corn in airy pancakes topped with salmon caviar at his postmodern, pastel-spattered Green Lake Grill. Cream of nettle soup and roast rabbit with sweet peppers and glazed garlic cloves are some of Beckley's other triumphs...
...Biloxi. The Bush entourage is running an atypical 15 minutes late. The weather is oyster-gray, and the turnout at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum is only fair. Dozens of Bush signs provided by the campaign lie unused on the ground. Some campaign officials wanted to stage the rally indoors, but Lanny Griffith, the Southern coordinator, insisted on palm trees and the gulf as the appropriate TV backdrop. Bush has only an outline to speak from, and his off-the-cuff remarks are off the mark: "I know I have the commitment of the innate honesty and decency of the United...
Just ask freshman forward Christin Biggs, who scored the only goal for the Harvard women's soccer team in yesterday's 1-0 victory over the University of New Hampshire at the Oyster River High School Field in Durham...
There was very little public repose to be disturbed. Seven years of war had nearly bankrupted the colonies, and both credit and currency were almost worthless. The supposedly united states quarreled fiercely over economic resources, like oyster-harvesting rights in Chesapeake Bay, and Congress had no real power to keep the peace. The brief but violent Massachusetts farmers' uprising, known as Shays' Rebellion, had provided a garish vision of things to come. Though it had taken Virginia's James Madison and his like-minded colleagues nearly two years to prepare the way for this "Federal Convention," the scheduled opening...