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Every movement needs a creation myth, and the gourmet-food-truck movement has a really good one. In 1996, Roy Choi, a law-school dropout and a general disappointment to his Korean-immigrant parents, was watching the Food Network one afternoon, eating Cheetos while coming down from some serious drugs, when suddenly Emeril Lagasse started talking directly to him. "He came out of the TV," Choi recalls, "and said, 'Smell this. Touch this. Taste this. Do something...
...still comprises 90% of its sales. Even here, Deere's gotten tough, canceling franchise contracts with smaller dealers - who, like the farmers, are deeply brand-loyal - encouraging them to partner with higher-volume dealership chains. "Our customers now have to drive more than an hour to get parts," says Roy Dufault, whose family-run franchise in Fosston, Minn., closed in October after 80 years of selling John Deere products. "At harvest time, if a tractor breaks down, an hour means a lot of money lost...
...Matt Damon, a real movie star, reteaming with Greengrass to essentially parachute their franchise's hero, Jason Bourne, into the toxic reality of Iraq. Like The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, this new collaboration rubs the nose of a fantasy plot into the gritty soil of political intrigue. Roy Miller, the Army chief warrant officer played by Damon, is a good soldier who realizes that his mission - to unearth the weapons of mass destruction the Bush Administration used as a rationale for invading Iraq - is bogus. Now, dammit, he'll find what's behind that ruse, even...
...Roy Cohen ’10, a former Eliot House resident who moved into an apartment near Inman Square this year after spending the fall semester in Argentina, says that his experiences overseas changed his perspective on living spaces...
Claire helped with the transition—“Claire, about as quintessential Manhattan as you can get, but not ‘that’ person,” says Jody. Claire’s father is Roy M. Goodman ’51, a state senator from Manhattan who held office from 1969 to 2002: the Statesman of the State Senate, they called...