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...Orthodox rabbi staying at one of the residential houses and need your advice. Last night, over mineral water and toast, the house master announced G-d had just blessed him with a son. Before I could say Mazel Tov, he asked if I could perform the circumcision next week. "Yes," I said, "Who could deny a baby his place...
Thomas Crooks, a former Dudley House Master, proposed toast after toast to the "marvellous bunch of pioneers" who made Dudley what it is today. The guests, among them various deans and masters, rose for the final Happy Birthday toast "to all the members of Dudley-past, present and future...
...efforts at tax reform remind me of one of Denmark's better-known fairy tales," said the President during his dinner toast. "When I talk about (reforming the tax system), I can visualize a beautiful swan. All the special interests see is an ugly duckling...
...truckers are lining up for seconds at the breakfast buffet (all you can eat for $3.99 -- biscuits with chipped-beef gravy, fruit cup, French toast with syrup, bacon, pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, doughnuts, Danish, cereal in little boxes...
...America's changing drinking habits: "The situation has reversed. People see alcohol not as part of their career but as something that could conceivably mess it up." San Francisco Reporter Jane Ferguson realized how much journalism had changed when she and two colleagues raised their glasses at lunch to toast another writer. Says she: "What was in our glasses? Bottled mineral water. Not a drop of alcohol for any of us." Washington Reporter Susan Schindehette also finds abstemiousness among her sources. "It is the rare interviewee these days who asks for a couple of Scotches over lunch," she says. Reporter...