Word: pies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pie-thrower was rumored to be a Belgian prankster named Noel Godin who once got filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in similar fashion. No word yet on whether Godin uses...
Gates Loses Face The Microsoft boss and emperor of the information age is leveled by a mystery pie-flinger...
BRUSSELS: Much better than "flaming": Bill Gates, emperor of the information age, was laid low in Brussels today with a low-tech social leveler: a cream pie full in the face as Gates entered an ornate hall in Brussels for meetings with Belgian computer industry and government leaders. The clearly peeved Gates was quickly hustled to a side room for cleanup, but emerged no happier. "We regret the incident (but) will not press charges," said a spokesman for Microsoft's Belgian office...
...couples compare favorably with their peers brought up in unbroken "straight" households. There are far more children looking for adoptive parents than people willing to adopt. Adoption officials have to deal with reality. Their options, when considering the best interests of each child, should not be limited by pie-in-the-sky delusions. WILLIAM C. STOSINE Iowa City...
First stop, the King's Head in Santa Monica. It's a British pub, a place where the smoke used to be as thick as kidney pie. Now there's scarcely a trace of it; in fact, the King's Head looks as if the patrons are waiting for the Queen to show up for tea and crumpets. "It's a bit ridiculous, if you ask me," says bartender Jane Myers, a Brit who wonders why Americans can't just let themselves go. "They'll come in here and order fish and chips and a diet Coke. Now, what...