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...McDonald's, the decision to shrink its menu was made in 2003, and is part of a broader initiative to streamline choices and provide customers with healthier alternatives. Also being phased out this year are 2% milk, 42-oz. soft drinks and a 14-oz. fruit-and-yogurt parfait. --By Alice Park
...California, with a good range of wines by the glass. The bar also features a selection of intriguing martinis, such as the Arabic Coffee Martini with Stolichnaya Vanil, splashes of Kahlua and Frangelico and a shot of Arabic Coffee; and the Moonlight Martini, a concoction of Bombay Sapphire with Parfait Amour, fresh lemon and a splash of Yellow Chartreuse. Under the guidance of our chipper, black-clad server, we took a bottle of Taurino Notarpanaro, a versatile and smooth Italian red that complemented our adventurous appetite for variety. Alas, as a reminder that we were in Cambridge and not Europe...
Dessert proved imperative, in spite of embarrassingly inflated waistbands and popped buttons. Amidst the traditional Key Lime Pie and Pecan Pie came the pernicious, though probably delicious, gesture towards chic--Praline Parfait and Flan. The Pecan Pie is served (naturally) piping hot, graced by silky, homemade vanilla ice cream so light it was almost ice milk. It was perfect. The Key Lime Pie was typically tart and sweet, graham crackery crust with sour flecks of lime rind...
...Internet itself. But all that changed with the advent last year of HotWired, the sassy online sister of Wired, and later of Pathfinder, Time Warner's mammoth collection of magazines-come-to-the-Net. Advertisers sensed new possibilities. And why not? The typical Internet user is a Madison Avenue parfait: mid-30s, hyper educated, mostly male, and with plenty of disposable income and free time...
...power struggle between the Cathar Clergue family and a prominent Catholic family blew the whole affair into the tribunals of the Inquisition. Father Pierre and his brother Bernard, the corrupt bailiff of the town, were sentenced to prison, there to die soon after. One Cathar-a not-so-perfect parfait given to shady business dealings and fornication-was burned at the stake. Beatrice de Planissoles, the chatelaine, was released along with her latest swain, another priest-but Beatrice was sentenced to wear the yellow cross of repentant heretics. As for the zealous bishop, he went on to become the zealous...