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Another group, led by John Flaherty and John O'Connor, both Cantabrigians of Irish descent, lobbied the council to consider its efforts to bring a memorial to the victims of the Irish Potato Famine of 1847 to the Cambridge Common...
...football's national championship is on the line. Nervous fans watching on television across the country hold their breath as the kicker readies himself for a 55-yd. field-goal attempt. They look over his shoulder as he peers between the goalposts, deep into the recesses of...a Ruffles potato-chip...
...process. In a celebrity catfight detailed in July's Vanity Fair, Grisham has suggested that Stone should be held responsible under product-liability law for any violence caused by Natural Born Killers--whose critics claim helped inspire several copycat murders. (Indeed, the film has become such a hot potato that one of its producers, Jane Hamsher, confirms that Warner Bros., the studio that produced it, has quietly relinquished its rights to the even more brutal "director's cut" video version...
...really be bad to be so good? Consider the case of Frito-Lay, which has long been America's king of salty snacks. In recent years the PepsiCo subsidiary, whose bite-size best sellers range from Lay's Potato Chips to Rold Gold Pretzels, has crunched more than one rival that got hungry for its business. Since the late 1980s, Frito-Lay, with $5.5 billion in sales last year, has boosted its industry market share from 38% to a towering...
...skirts to classes (except in Cambridge blizzards and when the oil shortage became acute) and hats and gloves to teas. We never smoked on the street (the only place you can, now, as one classmate has pointed out). The college food was terrible, running to all-white fish and potato and cauliflower meals, and Halloween salads of shredded carrots and raisins. Sweet sherry was the beverage of choice for fancy functions...