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...many Flavors can a tapa hold? Originally, a tapa was a piece of bread set on top of a wine glass to ward off flies and hunger. Today, a few tapas can make a full-fledged meal. The tapas capital of the world is San Sebastián, in the gastronomic heart of Spanish Basque country - where San Sebastián is called Donostia and tapas are called pintxos...
...tell the customer, of course. The Great American Group wants you to buy, now, before it's forced to move the discount down to 20%. The customer also has to make some bets. For example, Erickson, the Great American CFO, worked on the liquidation for the Montgomery Ward department stores a few years back. He gave himself a 30% off threshold for a backyard shed. Once the sale dropped that far, he would jump. But all sheds were gone from the store at 20%. "I got screwed on our own sale," he says. (See the top 10 gadgets...
Neither garlic nor holy water could ward off the country’s taste for vampires this holiday season. The vampire/human couple at the heart of Stephenie Meyer’s wildly successful Twilight book series stole the hearts of preteen girls nationwide—studios rushed to produce a movie version, news magazines splashed headlines like “A New J.K. Rowling?”, and Amazon reported that it had sold enough copies of the fourth “Twilight” book to scale Mt. Everest eight times...
...classic tale of Chicago politics involves a young man eager to plunge into a Democratic campaign. The skeptical ward boss asks who sent him. "We don't want nobody that nobody sent," he snarls...
...Phil Keddy, who handed Caputo his first loss this season at the NWCA All-Star Classic on Nov. 25.The Hawkeye junior took his second in a row against Caputo with a 6-3 decision on Monday.The Havard grappler bounced back in time to overtake eighth-seeded Jerome Ward of Iowa State in the wrestleback bracket, but came up short in the third-place bout, falling to fourth-seeded Doug Umbehauer of Rider.Jantzen also struggled for the first time this year, dropping two bouts in Evanston. The top seed earned back-to-back falls in what looked to be another dominant...