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Meanwhile, pitiful dateless slobs would partake of alternative forms of celebration. These included brisk rereadings of Locke's Second Treatise on Government, fiercely competitive Scrabble tournaments, ceremonial renditions of Mozart's Fourth Oboe Quintet and heated discussions of the socioeconomic and metaphysical implications of pita pizza...
...these troubled times, ostentatiousness is out, austerity in. One person heeding that message is Tom Monaghan, the centimillionaire founder of the Domino's Pizza chain (1990 revenues: nearly $2.7 billion). Monaghan, an architecture aficionado and leading collector of Frank Lloyd Wright artifacts, has decided to abandon his $5 million dream house. Even though it was one- third completed, Monaghan halted construction of the 22,000-sq.-ft. mansion in Ann Arbor, Mich., which he had intended to be the keystone in a development of exceedingly expensive mansions designed by eminent architects. The pizza tycoon, who is shifting his attention toward...
Saddam would have done better to consult Domino's Pizza, which put out a warning at 5 a.m. Wednesday that war was likely later that day. Domino's had $ noticed record delivery orders the previous night from the White House and Pentagon, presumably to fuel officials through crisis meetings. In fact, around 11 a.m. Tuesday during a meeting in the Oval Office with his top national-security advisers, Bush signed a directive authorizing the attack unless there was a last-minute diplomatic breakthrough. That afternoon Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney signed an "execute" order putting the directive into effect...
...civilized comfort. At the Ahwahnee Hotel, guests book reservations a year in advance to watch the alpenglow off the majestic Half Dome from cozy rooms equipped with TVs and minibars. When not ice skating, skiing or hiking through the mountain slopes clad with ponderosa pines, visitors can patronize a pizza parlor, a gourmet deli, a one-hour photo service, an automatic bank teller and, of course, a gift shop full of coffee mugs and T shirts with the Yosemite logo...
With a value-added tax now the rule in most industrialized countries, the U.S. is the last major holdout against adopting it to replace diverse and competing sales taxes. So let the debate begin: Is a pizza with extra pepperoni a snack or a staple...