Word: pied
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Brown sports and the city of Providence have their own mascot besides the Brown Bear: The Pizza Pie-er fairy, who hands out fliers saying that "If Brown scores, You win a Pizza." Seriously, this is a man (said to be the owner of the joint) who dresses up in a green, red and white jester outfit--sort of what the jocker looks like in a deck of playing cards--except that this guy is for real...
...dread word isolationism is again being tossed at the U.S. You may think you don't deserve that label, but the fact is that you have turned sharply against American involvements abroad. That is partly because isolationism is as American as apple pie, partly because the cold war is over, partly because in Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti, Clinton and his foreign policy team evoke the gang that couldn't shoot straight. That impression was certainly reinforced by the spectacle of the "world's only superpower" beating a panicky retreat in Mogadishu over the deaths of 18 American troops...
...shadowy Garrison, who is constantly at Cedras' side, has flown in Kevin Kattke, a former Macy's department-store maintenance engineer who has had his finger in more than one American intelligence pie. In 1983 Kattke helped Oliver North prepare the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. He was also on hand in Haiti in 1986 when Baby Doc Duvalier was ousted. (Raymond Burghardt, who oversaw Latin American affairs for the National Security Council at the time, credits Kattke with "knowing that Baby Doc would be toppled before the U.S. embassy...
Although the toll is highest in drug-ridden ghettos, this is not just a big- city phenomenon. Rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, best known for Amish festivals and shoofly pie, has seen its drug problems increase as people have moved in from poor neighborhoods in New York City and Philadelphia. Some of the newcomers already harbor the AIDS virus; at least 400 children in the county have either lost or are about to lose a parent to the disease. Often, infected mothers leave large cities and return to places where they grew up, where aunts and grandmothers can take...
Theriault said he had eaten in Dunster House that evening and believed the leftover chicken pot pie was likely the source of his subsequent illness...