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Desserts these days are rarely what they seem. What looks like a slice of - chocolate layer cake is really a reward for jogging those extra two miles in the morning. A towering wedge of vanilla-scented cheesecake, laden with calories, is no more than fair compensation for eating only salad or fish for lunch. And warm apple pie a la mode is not the obvious self-indulgence it once was, but a vital, midday energy booster for a deserving workaholic. Whatever the reasons (or sweet excuses), desserts are back in style with a vengeance, in restaurants and bakeries, even...
...irreplaceable. But even so, for some notoriety has proved to be the ticket to success anyway. One only has to notice Jean Harris' literary success after killing the "Scarsdale Diet Doctor," or the fame of Claus von Bulow for proof that the public tends to forget quickly, or else reward financially those who have erred...
...been collected to renovate the fraternity's new house. The other Greek societies at the university voted to donate $100 to the fund, and an alumnus has anonymously underwritten a $100,000 mortgage for the house. A $6000 reward is being offered by the university for the arrest and prosecution of the arsonist...
...happened before. What is now Harvard's Hillel House was once the Iroquois Club, a "waiting club" that gave up and went to its reward--selling the building to an organization that involves more students in more meaningful activities...
Botha's promise to stop destabilizing neighboring states is one reward black nations can anticipate in return for their hospitality. South Africa also doles out large-scale development loans and credits, which all its neighbors need, and carries on semicovert trade with more than 40 other African countries...