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...biggest cities, married couples account for less than half of households, and customers of every age and clime are increasingly unpredictable. This was a hard lesson for the restaurant business, which assumed customers would fit into certain broad categories: harried homemakers, say, or squeamish Midwesterners who would recoil at the sight of a whole fish. (To this day, the nation's hamburger chains believe that a trace of pink will terrify customers, a fact that accounts for the universal badness of chain burgers.) See YouTube's 50 Best Videos...
...Like a true card shark, Merkel seems prepared to call Papandreou's bluff. The Greek leader had counted on the E.U. to collectively recoil in horror at the idea of his country's going to the IMF, but Merkel is effectively daring him to do it. Speaking to the German Parliament in Berlin last week, Merkel said that calling in the IMF "would probably have to be the way out right now if action were to be taken." She went on to say that the euro-zone countries should be able to kick out one of their own to avert...
...impressed by you," she tells Greenberg at one point. This line of thinking pretty much causes her best friend's head to explode and the entire audience to recoil in a collective say what? Should one judge a movie's artistic merits based on how annoyed you are by its characters? No. If likable is what you're looking for, it is inadvisable to trot off to see a Baumbach movie (Margot at the Wedding and The Squid and the Whale featured comparable creeps). That Greenberg has merits is undeniable. Gerwig, a funny mix of Kate Winslet and the joyfully...
...debate about what role religion can play in the arts. So far, the church’s reaction to complex—if provocative—creative products like Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” has generally been one of recoil; works of art that don’t aim to provoke have elicited no comment...
Some observers might recoil at the idea of prosecuting Kagame's allies. The RPF, after all, ended the genocide in the face of Western inaction and double-talk. Kagame and his cohorts then encouraged reconciliation between Hutus and Tutsis while setting about rebuilding Rwanda's shattered economy, promoting the small central African nation as a technology hub and an exporter of high-end coffee. The Western press often praises Kagame as the new face of African leadership. (See Paul Kagame in the 2009 TIME...