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...Geneva is the Oslo stew hastily re-cooked: Israel delivers land and the PA supposedly delivers an intangible called peace. Under this understanding, Israel has already delivered portions of land; the PA has used every inch of that land to boost their only protected industry: explosive belts for Palestinian kids to die kiling Jewish kids. Should we order more of the same? What you see is what you get. Eduardo Joselevich Buenos Aires, Argentina...
...culinary Rembrandts at Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). That last struggle has, on the whole, been a remarkably smooth one: for as awful as the dining hall can be at its worst (Brunswick will never be a very tasty city, despite the best efforts of HUDS’ beef stew), there are enough points of brightness in the overcooked night to keep Dartboard going...
...this time Paul was driving race cars for an old friend of his, Bob Sharp, and it was on the way to a race at Lime Rock that Paul mentioned our salad dressing adventure. Bob suggested that we meet with his friend Stew Leonard, who owned a big supermarket in neighboring Norwalk. We subsequently had lunch with Stew, who warned us (as we had heard many times by now) that his attempts to sell celebrity products had fizzled. "If your dressing is really good," Stew said, "you've got a good shot at it since you'll sell the first...
...Whoa!" Paul said. "My face is on the label?" "Of course," said Stew. "How else do you get their attention?" Paul balked: "My face on a bottle of salad dressing? Not a chance in hell." Stew offered a proposal: "I'd like to set up a tasting. If your dressing is something special and you have a good label on it, I'll get Andy Crowley at Ken's to bottle it and I'll kick off your sales with a big promotion at my store." We told him that Crowley already turned us down. "Gentlemen," Stew said...
...Stew asked Andy to come down to his store to discuss the situation. Andy spent two hours explaining the fundamentals of the business, and at one point, Andy recalls, "when I mentioned a cash discount, Paul interrupted me and asked, 'What's that?'" Finally, after hours of discussion, Stew interjected himself and said, "Okay, Andy, enough! I want to go ahead on this. I'll buy 2,000 cases. Are you going to make it?" "What was I going to say," Andy says, "other than okay, because he was one of my biggest customers...