Word: pars
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...have since developed taste, which is, I think, the natural result of four college years of sub-par coffee, alcohol and everything else. I have moved on to more complex beans like Toscanini’s “Dancing Goats,” and my very own coffee grinder. In the future, when I have a kitchen, I expect to be one of those annoying people who only purchases overpriced beans in air-tight bags and small quantities, and balks in horror at the idea of pre-ground coffee...
...centuries in test-match cricket places Australian captain Steve Warre on a par with Sir Donald Bradman as the most successful batsman in his country's history...
...like home. So, to win over the die-hard New Yorkers with his deli, Levin says he knew only the real stuff would do. "My suppliers tell me I can get cheap pastrami from Australia," he laughs. "Right." Instead, Levin goes straight to the source. His rye bread is par-baked in New York ovens (with New York water), then finished in Hong Kong. His salami comes from the famed Katz's delicatessen. And the bagels-which will fool even the most hardened Manhattan bagel-snob-are baked daily with dough shipped from H&H Bagels. "Why be New York...
...realize that the administration must make temporary budget cuts. However, Dartmouth chose to eliminate two whole teams rather than make a 2.7 percent cut to all teams, which is a nominal amount. Contrary to what Holoch suggests, there is no correlation that budget cuts last year contributed to sub-par athletic seasons. However, money is not an issue for Dartmouth anymore. The students and swimmers have raised enough money to have the swim team endowed forever. Harvard’s swim teams similarly operate almost entirely from alumni donations. As for the Dartmouth facilities, they do not require $20 million...
...chance to create something by myself." Kirchschlager has succeeded in creating a vivid character, but whether Sophie enters the pantheon of operatic heroines will depend ultimately on composer Maw's work. The opera is his third (and his first in over 20 years), and his experiences with sub-par productions of his first two left him "very disillusioned with the world of opera." But this time, he had the best midwives in the business: conductor Simon Rattle, temporarily back in London from his post as director of the Berlin Philharmonic, and renowned director Trevor Nunn. With top tickets selling...