Word: roasting
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...Call every Representative on the fence; hint at a private pork roast B. Call a bipartisan commission to study the issues further C. Play golf; try to look good; lash out at do-nothing Congress...
...Roast Starbucks! For the trendy coffee retailer, a public-relations nightmare was brewing last week, courtesy of the caffeinated mix of labor activists, consumer groups and environmentalists that brought us Seattle's WTO protests. Campuses were mobilized, press kits mailed, and protests planned in 29 cities. An open letter to Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz was signed by the likes of Friends of the Earth, the Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition and San Francisco's Harvey Milk Democratic Club. "The farmers who make you rich earn poverty wages," the letter said. "Sweatshops occur not only in the factory but also in the field...
...politics since the days of Mayor James Michael Curley, are staples of Irish-American political lore. Such tales are brought up every year at South Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast, where Boston pols get together at the local union hall, eat corned beef and cabbage and roast each other in an equal-opportunity political slugfest...
...popular. Today, they have become the Harvard man's passport to a social life. But the societies' principal purpose was to provide its members with good company and a good meal. The Porcellian was founded in 1791 by a group of friends who decided they wanted to eat roast pig together every month...
After deciding on a roast beef sandwich, he relays his story, beginning with a move to New Mexico in 1974. He was trying to get established as a painter but, in the spring of 1978, became involved in a "controversy" about which he declines to give details...