Word: vu
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...company I counted myself. My first digs were in a feminist communal household on Potrero Hill, where we shared meals, child care and feelings for a grand total of $500 a month rent, or $150 for my share. It was the perfect arrangement, allowing me to live well (with "vu") and follow my bliss as an actress and writer for a song. Practically everyone I knew was on a similar track. We felt smug and superior to our arty counterparts who were toughing it out in New York City...
Just 25 seconds later it was almost deja vu. Botterill's shot trickled through the legs of Van Tuyl and Ingram helped the puck along an extra couple of inches into the back...
...Arroyo has included leftist groups in her three-month anti-Estrada opposition coalition; now that she's in power, they could try to water down her pro-globalization bias. That's another echo of the past: Aquino had similar ideological clashes within her government. More déjà vu: change sometimes comes fast in the Philippines - but many things stay the same...
Coffee mogul Dang Le Nguyen Vu, 31, owes much of the success of his 400-outlet-strong Trung Nguyen franchise to reviving Ca Phe Chon. According to legend, the chon (weasel) would eat the choicest coffee beans, then digest the outer shells, leaving the innards to, um, emerge in long strings. Farmers collected the beans and roasted them?presumably after a thorough washing?to make a rich brew. While Vietnam isn't alone in making such coffee (Indonesia has beans predigested by civets), Vu has brought Ca Phe Chon back in a more sanitary incarnation. He processes the beans...
...Vu will take Weasel Coffee global, with Trung Nguyen caf?s scheduled to open this year in Singapore and Japan. "Weasel Coffee will be one of our main marketing strategies," Vu says. "We want to keep the legend alive." Just so long as he doesn't use live weasels...