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...small thing to rebrand a national icon - particularly if you're rebranding it as a meat product. A few years ago, Australia's food industry was trying to figure out how to get more people to think of the kangaroo, which is part of the country's official coat of arms, as something that is edible rather than adorable. In 2005, the trade magazine Food Companion International ran a global competition for suggestions on what to call kangaroo meat. The magazine received 2,700 entries from more than 40 nations. Proposed names included rooviande, kangasaurus, jumpmeat and MOM (meat...
...nonmicrowaved, made-to-order burgers and fries--has kept the company profitable and growing; remember that hundreds of fast-food-franchise concepts have flamed out since then. "Keep it real simple," Harry Snyder, a co-founder with his wife Esther of In-N-Out, would often say. "Do one thing, and do it the best you can." The company thrived on its stellar customer service and higher-than-average wages...
...find his way to the even bleaker abbreviations of a pitiless world he produced in the 1970s. Dyer's grotesque end--he was found dead on the toilet from a drug overdose--stands behind these paintings, but they speak to you about more universal miseries. This is the thing so compelling about Bacon, the sense he produces that the suffering is ferocious but the sufferer is dry-eyed...
...finished so far from reaching its originally lofty goals has to be considered a failure. At the onset of 2009, expectations for the Crimson were more tempered. Haviland and Unger were gone, leaving sophomore Max Perlman—coming back from a year off—as the closest thing to a sure bet on the pitching staff. The rotation would have to be pieced together with sophomores that had shown flashes of competence but not consistency and rookies that had not shown anything at all. Harvard was returning its fair share of veteran bats, but bringing back most...
While I was forced to bluff my way through early articles (it takes awhile to understand how one grappler can score points when both fall to the mat in a mutual headlock), one thing did not escape my notice...