Word: pies
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George W. Bush built his budgets around tax cuts, not tax collection, and Republicans have never been overly fond of the IRS. So maybe it's not too surprising that the tax collection agency thinks it got quite a bit less of the budget pie than it needs - or that there has been much squawking from tax types...
...Reel Nasty How About Bill Clinton in American Pie II? Britain's ruling labour party, gearing up for a possible general election in may, has produced a campaign video based on the 1976 horror flick The Omen. The short, Economic Disaster II, depicts Tory leader William Hague as the offspring of an Antichrist played by Margaret Thacher. The tagline: "They forgot one thing?there was a son." Elections are looming elsewhere?and the world's film archives are filled with potential spoof material. JAPAN Throw Mori from the Train Nobody likes him?but he's damned hard...
...ubiquitous soundtrack, "Les Années Pop" is not so much an art exhibition as what in the '60s was called a happening. The sheer three-dimensionality of it - Christo's plastic-wrapped bicycle, César's compressed automobiles, Claes Oldenburg's Store with its huge floppy pie and ice-cream cone, the aluminum-foil recreation of Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress to plastic radio bracelets and Star Trek-like chairs - turns the exhibit...
...After a 21-year relationship, Heinecke and Pizza Hut split in January in a dispute over franchising rights. But Heinecke would not give up any slice of the pizza pie without a fight. On March 17, after a $10 million, 45-day operation, he reopened and rebranded his 116 stores as the Pizza Company, the first Thai-based pizza chain. Tricon International, the multinational conglomerate that owns Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell, has deployed its heavy artillery to quash the rebellion, opening 68 brand-new Pizza Huts throughout Thailand. "It's a battle between market experience versus...
...oldest and most fundamental ratios in mathematics, was in fact celebrated only by a sad few. Across the city, lonely revelers--careful not to be seen together, lest their full nerddom be revealed--raised their tankards 3.14 times in silent commemoration. The Mathematics Department held a pie-eating contest, only perpetuating the trend that remembers our most famous ratio only through popular baked goods. I did not attend out of protest...