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...great!" Fire up your ovens! It's a new dawn at the National Cherry Festival, for 72 years a celebrated rite of summer in quaint Traverse City, Mich. For the first time in more than two decades, you'll be able to buy a slice of freshly made cherry pie at the fest, which runs all next week along the breathtaking Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. Not since Gerald and Betty Ford decided to stop by in 1975 has a development created such a stir at the gathering...
...crowds are expected to set records (about 100,000 a day projected), and the tart-cherry harvest looks to be of epic proportions, but the real shocker this year is the lifting of the official ban on the sale of single slices of fresh pie. Huh? For years, as a major sponsor, the Sara Lee Corp. has operated nothing less than a pie cartel during the cherry confab. The only slice of pie a visitor could buy was Sara Lee's, thanks to a sweet deal with festival officials. But in a saga evocative of the breakup...
...cherries, though there was also a parade featuring Spanish-American War veterans. And even this inaugural celebration had underwriters: the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs covered the day's expenses. While few pine for such simplicity today, some festival participants found it a particular outrage that the quintessential cherry product, pie, had been essentially hijacked by the deep-pocketed, frozen-food mass marketer Sara Lee. When a forerunner of the giant company bought out a local pie plant in 1979, the writing was on the wall for any prospective local competitor. One rival, frustrated by the pie-slice prohibition, tried something...
Secret Soprano. She ought to be in the Pitches, but somehow missed the auditions. Only her roommates have access to her early morning shower concerts and know that she knows all nine minutes of "American Pie" by heart...
Plus, there is not even the assurance that IP telephone rates will always stay so low. By being exempt from access fees and other taxes, these IP phone companies are essentially being allowed by the government to steal a slice of the telephone pie without being subject to the same taxes and fees their competitors pay. Beyond giving them a somewhat unfair competitive advantage, this goes against the FCC's long-standing tradition of funding itself and wide-spread telephony access through taxes on long-distance phone service...