Word: ribboning
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...that same Busch Light 30-rack costs $21, and six-packs run higher as well. Though it is in actuality a small price hike, it is in many ways the straw that breaks the proverbial student’s back. I can buy a 30-rack of Pabst Blue Ribbon for $14 at University Wine, and a 30 of Busch for $16. Psychologically, saving five-to-seven dollars per 30 is worth the walk up Massachusetts Avenue. And that’s not even counting the gain in getting better beer for less...
...volunteers drawn in by the Maupins' trials, the Yellow Ribbon Support Center, a nonprofit group Matt's parents started last August, is headquarters. It's housed in a couple of donated storefronts tucked into the back of a shopping center. The center has shipped about 2,000 boxes--an estimated 20 tons--of donated candy and cookies, coffee and hot chocolate, games, toothbrushes, underwear and toiletries, to U.S. troops, largely in Iraq. Each box also contains a plastic bag with 10 small pin-on badges containing a photo of Maupin and a slip of paper: "These are pictures...
Sara Chilewski and Emily Large, both 12, are at the center on a cold Saturday afternoon, punching holes into pictures of Maupin and threading bits of yellow ribbon through them. They've volunteered here before and think it's more important than doing homework or shopping at Eastgate Mall. They believe what they're doing, in some small way, might contribute to Maupin's coming home. "I really want to help him," Large says, "because I know how much the soldiers are doing for our country." Dave Foley, 55, a Vietnam Navy veteran, is amazed at the support the girls...
...family has received more than 15,000 letters of support, some addressed simply to "The family of the soldier captured in Iraq, Batavia, Ohio." Other messages have been posted on the center's website (www. yellow ribbon support center. com). Dozens of U.S. troops have responded to the packages. They thank the center for making their stay in Iraq a little easier and pledge to do what they can to bring Maupin home. "Recovering missing Americans is something all service members hold sacred, partly because it motivates us to do our job without worrying whether or not our country will...
...badly does the United Nations need reform? A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by Kofi Annan counted 101 ways in a much anticipated report released last week. Headed by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, the 16-member panel had something to say about everything from nuclear proliferation to looming pandemics. But the real buzz was caused by the panel's call to expand and revamp the U.N.'s most important decision-making body, the Security Council. If approved, the recommendations would produce the biggest shake-up at Turtle Bay in more than a generation. "The chances of thorough reform have...