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...middle of the night is a fear of what it would feel like if America were attacked again, by the next monster storm, or, worse, the next monstrous attack. In the days after 9/11, when our wounds were fresh and deep and desperate, the most powerful pain relief came from the spirit of the response: lines around the block to give blood, flowers left at the firehouses, lawmakers on the steps of Congress declaring there are no Democrats or Republicans, only Americans; the band played the Star Spangled Banner during the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, Dublin...
...chains need to cater to take-out customers or buy fancy lids. Chains such as Au Bon Pain (ABP), do not use the most-recently designed lids...
...highlighted the main downside of this approach: a lack of growth and a certain static quality to the characters and situations. This drawback, however, was more than offset by the play’s ability to present a wide variety of experiences and to shift rapidly between humor and pain without seeming forced, a far more difficult task to accomplish within a more traditional narrative. When less continuity of character and plot is necessary, the subject matter can shift from dancing to death without inducing whiplash. In combining two plays written in a similar style but years apart, Gentry...
...chicken nuggets fan myself, I could see the argument against these chains, if it weren’t applied so hypocritically. You might have noticed more than a few chains inhabiting the Square, such as Pizzeria Uno, Starbucks, and Au Bon Pain, the latter two having more than one location in the Square. Apparently Au Bon Pain is allowed because of its Boston-based roots. While the main location might gain an argument with its outdoor chess boards, the second restaurant is as unoriginal as any other chain, with the added treat of excessive prices...
...invasion. All this suggests that any U.S.-led military attack on Iran designed to root out - or even merely delay - Tehran?s nuclear-weapons program is going to have to be far more violent and sustained than Desert Fox. In other words, any talk of a relatively pain-free surgical strike against Iran would certainly qualify as misinformed speculation...