Word: toasts
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Which brings up the worst thing about scoops: they come with built-in pressure to exaggerate their own importance. All scoops, even real and important ones, by their nature resist perspective. "In a development that experts say could revolutionize our thinking about toast, XYZ News has learned that..." No scoop ever begins, "In a development that may not be any big deal..." Thus what starts out as a quest for the truth often ends up just adding to the world's supply of dishonesty...
Boston may have officially celebrated St. Patty's Day over the weekend, but loyal Irishmen continue to toast each other erin go braugh until tomorrow. Dive into Boston-Irish culture at The Druid, an Inman Square pub that pours Irish brews on tap and plays live music on most nights. 21+. The Druid, 1357 Cambridge St. 497-0965. FREE...
...hair on TV, and she knew he was running for President. Now he was right beside her, talking to a reporter at a cafe in Fort Dodge, Iowa. So Radford interrupted him, and John Kasich, the 46-year-old Republican Congressman from Ohio, stopped quartering his French toast to listen to her. A widow with an eye infection, Radford, 73, told Kasich she was struggling every month to pay for her prescriptions. One cost $81 to fill, the other $57, and the prices kept going up. How could the government help? she asked...
...room. Generations of scholars yet unborn will read shelves of books yet unwritten trying to figure out what went wrong in America in 1998 and why. So maybe it's the lazy luxury of relief, now that it's over, to look at what might have gone right and toast the new era with a glass half full...
...school money, so she asked her brother Clive to throw a party. Back in Kingston, Jamaica, his hometown, Clive used to watch dance-hall revelers. He loved reggae, Bob Marley and Don Drummond and the Skatalites. He loved the big sound systems the deejays had, the way they'd "toast" in a singsong voice before each song. When he moved to the U.S. at age 13, he used to tear the speakers out of abandoned cars and hook them onto a stereo in his room...