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...indeed a tribute, though to what is open to debate. The show, which debuted last month and garnered the network its highest ratings ever (3.6 Nielsen points, compared with its average of 2.4), revolves around young women who live, love, cheat and eat a lot of pecan pie in the fashionable Georgia city that gives the show its name. Spelling has made some missteps in the past few years (e.g., University Hospital); with Savannah he has created a series that can rival his own Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 as state-of-the-art trash...
...also tried Cosmic Crunch, vanilla ice cream with butterscotch, pecans and chocolate chips. It was pralines and cream--only better. The large chunks of pecan nicely balanced the creamy, sweet ice cream and butterscotch...
...what a shame puking would have been. Scrumptious hors d'oeuvres beckoned spiffed-up students taking a break from the dance floor. The delectable mini pecan pies were definitely not Union fare, and the little egg roll things were rather cute. Kevin B. Acklin '98 was so taken by the ambrosial morsels that he could only mumble between mouthfuls, "Good food. Good food." At least, I think that's what he said...
...about time. Sadly, however, a growing number of parents feel compelled to opt out of public schools altogether: more than 700,000 children are educated at home, up from about 12,500 in the late 1970s. No small number of them are taught by Kenneth and Julie McKim of Pecan Gap, Texas, who started educating their 13 children at home more than a decade ago. Says Julie: ``We wanted our children to be protected before they had to face someone who was offering them drugs or before they had to make moral choices we would rather our children not make...
...walking away because Aristide isn't our kind of democrat are wrong," says Baker. "If supporting democracy is a cornerstone of our foreign policy, which it is and should be, then you can't treat what democracy produces as a fruit salad, taking a raisin here while rejecting a pecan there. The test should be whether Aristide was chosen in a free and fair election. He was. Supporting him is therefore an American interest. It isn't an interest that justifies war, but it does justify rigorous sanctions...