Word: stews
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...Christopher Paolini. Inkheart is the suspenseful, darkly comic story of 12-year-old Meggie, who discovers the perils of fictional characters' coming to life. Eragon, by Paolini, who is only 19, is a fast-paced adventure tale that takes place in a fully realized alternate universe inhabited by a stew of dragons, swords and dark forces. By next year, you'll no doubt be able to supplement the literary gifts with Eragon action-figure stocking stuffers...
...both detainees and troops, boxes of bananas and pita wait to be incorporated into a dinner menu. Bread, milk, vegetables and fruit--bananas, apples, pears or dates--are included in each meal. The cooks use a lot of curry--breakfast might be curried eggs, dinner a curried-chicken stew--to approximate the cuisine of at least some of the prisoners. "The food I ate there was the best I'd ever had in my life," says Pakistani Shah Mohammed, now 21, who says he landed at Gitmo after he was kidnapped by an Uzbek commander and sold to the Americans...
...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...
...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...