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...Olde Pepper Companie is the perfect side trip once in Salem. Right down the road from Salem’s Witch Mansion and just across the street from the fabled House of Seven Gables, visitors should be sure to stop and indulge in some sumptuous sweets from America’s oldest source, for its candy continues the town’s rich magical history. And not all magic is black magic. Ye Olde Pepper Companie Ltd. 122 Derby Street
...they're not good. In 1974, Gerald Ford-dressed in a pair of borrowed formal trousers that barely reached his socks-met then-Emperor Hirohito. (Ford's own pants hadn't been packed.) And in 1992, the first President Bush famously vomited and collapsed in the middle of a sumptuous Japanese dinner. The current President Bush's 16-hour layover in Tokyo, beginning last Friday, proved more convivial, thanks to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent pledge of $1.5 billion to rebuild Iraq...
...food onstage is sumptuous and real, from the thimble-size beef tartare amuse-bouche to the spiced Moroccan lamb with couscous--pronounced, as the Martha Stewart-style hostess is careful to note, "coush-coush." The dinner guests are an array of gabby intellectuals loosely modeled on real-life intellectuals--a Christopher Hitchens-type British lefty, a Tom Clancy-like novelist with pro-war views, a Middle East expert who recalls the late Edward Said. They sit around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence...
...promised highlight of the three-day bash was a Friday afternoon parade. But the closest thing to Rio's sumptuous Samba schools was a float from a local Brazilian restaurant, with two dusky dancers and a band. The rest of the dozen or so floats looked hastily cobbled together from tinfoil, and the bulk of the parade comprised local schoolchildren...
...Pamela Anderson and rock-rapper Kid Rock is dead. Anderson has been spotted gadding about without her engagement ring, and she is quoted in the current issue of PEOPLE as saying, "The word that best describes me now is 'free.'" What happened? Did Anderson grow jealous of Rock's sumptuous furs? Did she finally wake up one day and realize that she was way, way better looking than he was? Or did she simply conclude that no matter what she did, she could never fill the void in Rock's heart left by the late midget rapper Joe C.? Most...