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...local level, the push to undo the Sunday ban may face even stiffer opposition. Jerry Oberholtzer, mayor of Snellville, Ga., has been waging a six-year battle to legalize Sunday sales in hopes of bringing what he calls "white tablecloth restaurants" to town. But members of Snellville's First Baptist Church and others have thwarted his efforts...
...Marina Krytikova sits at her kitchen table, the smoke from her cigarette mixing with the smell of lacquer as two doll sets dry on the tablecloth. The bellies of the roly-poly dolls depict stylized Russian scenes of dashing horses, young lovers and soaring eagles that Krytikova has copied over the years out of books of fairy tales, from greeting cards and even off the tops of cake boxes. "When I'm working, I forget about everything," she says as she peers over her glasses to paint intricate curlicues on the body of a large doll. "I forget about family...
...last night’s meeting sought to do more. Suggestions included encouraging students to fill out dining feedback cards expressing their support for the staff, mass e-mailing student organizations and House lists to raise awareness, and covering a dining hall table with a rainbow flag as a tablecloth. “People will use the excuse of layoffs to get rid of problematic employees,” SLAM leader Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 said last night. “As students, we can yell outside Holyoke Center, and we?...
...Adams two hours later, Chen is all business, cutting up everything except the nightgown into fabric circles, which she proceeds to sew into bunched flowers. As she fingers a table runner, Chens muses on the history of her chosen fabric: “Who had sex on this bedspread? Tablecloth? Who had sex on this table?! Am I, like, covered in juices right now?” While roommates poke their heads in to check on progress, Chen declares her thoughts behind the pending creation to be “meta.” She hopes to highlight the theme...
Danny Meyer has learned a thingor two about business since he opened the Union Square Cafe in New York City in 1985. The downtown eatery has become the cornerstone of one of America's most successful restaurant organizations, a culinary empire that runs the gamut from white tablecloth to outdoor hamburger shack. The common theme, as he explains in his new memoir-cum-business manual, Setting the Table (HarperCollins), is something he calls "enlightened hospitality," an idea he will happily apply to any business endeavor. He serves up quite a bit of advice in his book. A sampling...