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...rows of Carr’s Water Biscuits, Brie wedges and French bread slices on plates with paper doilies. There were also assorted cookies from boxes of Pepperidge Farm’s Entertainment Collection (Milano, Geneva, Bordeaux, Brussels, Lisbon, Chessmen and Chocolate Pirouettes) arranged in enticing circles. The pi??ce de resistance was a white porcelain bowl with a blue flower pattern filled to the brim with fresh strawberries...
...welfare reform bill was hailed both by its Republican authors and former President Bill Clinton, who co-opted it as the pi??ce de resistance in dismantling the Great Society and replacing it with an era of so-called personal responsibility. The bill took a federal entitlement program and broke it up into 50 different allocations that the states could use for welfare purposes as they saw fit with a few provisos: for example, half of all single parents receiving welfare had to work at least 30 hours per week. Conveniently enacted in a buoyant economy, the bill...
...merchandisers seem to be asking. There are Flintstones vitamins and Rugrats toothpaste, so why not Harry Potter body wash? Sorcerer’s Stone ushers in a buying bonanza for consumers and a pi??ata of profit for marketers, spewing out Harry Potter action figures and overpriced jelly beans. In addition to the board games and Legos are two more films, the first of which goes into production on Nov. 19, three days—count them, three—after Sorcerer’s Stone comes out. By the time the next movie opens, the first deluge...
...guns and rifles. At summer camp, I spent weeks perfecting my shot in hopes of eventually reaching the highest level of NRA certification: expert marksman. But today was different. In my hand was a 9mm Glock—the kind you see on “Magnum PI?? and in The Matrix—and as I was unloading a clip of bullets into a target approximately 15 yards away, I realized that I held the power of life and death in my hands. To have so much control was both an eerie and exhilarating feeling...
...Paolo De Marchi, the producer of Isole e Olena, places among the top winegrowers in Italy. His echt classico is a wine of fine breeding: the unimposing structure yields uncommon class and elegance. The outspoken Tuscan character imposingly projects the overall gestalt. Its pi??ce de resistance is clearly the bouquet of red berries, dark cherries, black currants and vanilla. It has a varietal twang and an agreeable consistency of flavor and aroma...