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...offer the Pentagon job to Gates until early last week. A little cloak-and-dagger was used to sneak Gates onto the President's ranch for his job interview: he was instructed to meet White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and his deputy, Joe Hagin, at a supermarket parking lot in nearby McGregor, Texas, for the drive to Crawford. The President slipped out to meet Gates at the new office that opened on the ranch...
...collection was never worth more than the sum of its dimes. (All the same, to this day I get a chill any time I find myself around the intersection of Market Street and Dolores in San Francisco, where the U.S. mint sits on a hill overlooking a Safeway supermarket, the very mint that produced, for reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained attempt at a stamp collection. I still have my first-day issue...
...that opposed the measure. The proposed initiative, listed as Question 1, would have allowed licensing boards to issue as many as 2,800 additional wine permits to food stores. Under current state law, companies can hold a maximum of three liquor licenses—a rule that prevents many supermarket chains from selling beer, wine, and spirits. With 96 percent of precincts reporting early this morning, “no” votes outnumbered “yes” ballots by a 12 percentage point margin. But in Cambridge, where voters’ liberal leanings apparently apply to libations...
...wife Little Plum have come to the capital from impoverished Gansu province and a childhood diet of "dark gruel made of tree bark and sorghum." Subsisting now on noodles and expired canned goods, they marvel at the urban paradise around them. Little Plum, writes Yan, "roams the supermarket, admiring stacks of dish detergents, napkins and bath towels as if they were flower beds or pavilions in a park." Dan's yearning for the good life - and his delight with the gustatory perks of his new calling - initially blind him to the swamp of favors and payoffs he has entered...
...offer no medical benefits, up from 31% in 2000. About 60% of companies say they expect coverage to decrease. So it's not surprising that 80% of Americans polled say the system is broken. "Really all humanity has been stripped out," says Cathi Shaefer, a grocery clerk for the supermarket giant Safeway in Upland, Calif. "The care of people is getting a lot less attention than numbers...