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...Seale Funeral Services in the rural town of Denham Springs, La. when he was 16. Chauvière’s grandfather started the company, and his uncle now owns it. “I still visit every time I’m back home, and occasionally pitch in,” says Chauvière. “Nothing was ever normal. It was a strange day if you didn’t have some surreal experience...
...Still, if companies want to sell even more masks, lanterns, witch hats and the like, good luck to them. It's the gullible consumers who fall for the pitch whom I detest - the employees who insist on decorating sensible cubicles with orange and black streamers and littering the office with bowls of candy, the folk who dress up and throw pumpkin parties at country clubs, the hundreds of thousands who will come to work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work...
...transformation began around the seventh inning. Konesky, who proved to be a bellwether during the 11-inning epic, got increasingly worried as Pedro’s pitch count rose well over 100. “Take him out,” she screamed, taking herself out of Straus Common Room after the Yankees tied the score 5-5 in the eighth...
Yeah I think so. Murphy was trying to so hard to run out the clock, you were tempted to ask him if he were a Red Sox fan trying to get the game over in time for the 4 p.m. first pitch...
Over the last decade, critics focused on the big-time, revenue-generating college sports programs—North Carolina basketball, Michigan football and the like. But as the frenzy over selective college admissions grew to a feverish pitch in the second half of the 1990s, disgruntled rejected applicants began to point fingers at competing constituencies they believed were unqualified—first minorities, and more recently legacies. It was only logical that the biggest group of students to benefit from a non-academic selection preference—athletes—have now come under fire...