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...Don’t eat moldy cheese—even when it’s on a silver platter,” Chopra said...
...media’s reliance on dramatic spectacle for its own special interests. Bush’s covert Thanksgiving Day stopover at the Baghdad airport for two and a half hours was a particularly fitting example. Encircled by soldiers, the president smiled widely for the cameras, carrying a huge platter with a giant golden-brown turkey, lavish trimmings and bunches of grapes. The image was plastered on practically every online site, television broadcast and newspaper front page, helping to amplify optimism about the deteriorating state of affairs in Iraq...
...event turned out to be meticulously choreographed to a devious degree. The White House eventually acknowledged that the plentiful platter Bush carried was a table decoration—not for actual consumption. And a thrilling anecdote about a passing pilot who nearly blew Air Force One’s cover—while it posed as a much smaller plane in order to slip through British airspace—was mysteriously unverifiable, if not wholly fabricated...
Mika C. Morse ’05 spent eight days in Nicaragua with her freshman seminar, “The Latin American Political and Economic Landscape,” taught by Sylvia Maxfield, a visiting professor. But their trip was hardly handed to them on a silver platter. Morse took the lead in seeking out funding sources and applying for grants to pay for travel expenses for the entire class, while other students oversaw the logistical issues of the trip. Eventually Morse was able to secure funds, primarily from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American studies...
...John whisks away his empty serving platter, we survey the vast feast in front of us with greedy eyes. We immediately begin sampling the various offerings, discovering that everything—from the main courses to the side dishes—is of the highest quality. The whole-bellied clams are plump and fried to a golden crisp, with none of the rubbery texture that they often have. The lobster is sweet and complemented perfectly by the steamed mussels and clams. Despite the food overload, we can’t resist trying the Shack’s chocolate banana cream...