Word: wildes
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...reunion concert of Van Halen has you feeling like you've stepped into a time warp... Where have you been all summer? There was Don Dokken wailing "Unchain the Night" to hundreds of wild fans in Springfield, Virginia, as razor-sharp, screaming guitar chords pierced the darkness. A few weeks after, in the same venue, Ratt lead singer Stephen Pearcy stretched a mike over the crowd and sang "Round and Round" as bodies slammed together and fists pounded the air. In Thorpe, Pennsylvania, Warrant's Jani Lane was in concert, singing the band's classic '80s metal ballad "Heaven...
...politicians and they do not vote. Their trade demands that they shed their citizenry, that they give up the privileges and protections of society for them and their families. The law does not demur to strip away their freedom, and they fill up the ranks of inmates in wild overproportion—over 55 percent of the federal prison population is incarcerated for drug offenses...
Elsewhere on the Republican side, the real wild card is former Massachusetts Governor Romney, not because of anything that he is doing now, but because of what he has the potential to do in the new year. Starting in 2008, candidates will be required to file finance reports monthly, but those accountings are not due at the FEC until the 20th of the following month. What his opponents expect and fear is that Romney will write himself a huge check shortly after the beginning of the new year to provide himself a massive infusion of funds for the early round...
...beer - began showing up. In March 2006, 5,000 Starbucks outlets in the U.S. began selling Rwandan coffee. In their brochure this year, coffee roasters Green Mountain described Rwanda as "the hottest emerging origin in speciality coffee." Its coffee had "floral top notes of lemon ... sweet, caramelized sugar and wild honey evolving into the heady, well-toned presence of chocolate, dried fruit and dark cherry notes." Who knew? Not Rwandans, who don't drink the stuff. But they did notice the extra change in their pocket, and how foreigners were queuing up to buy their beans years in advance. "Suddenly...
...that stocks every cut of meat imaginable and provides its products to local restaurants like Upstairs on the Square and Radius. Perusing the butcher’s section, I overheard a market employee apologetically tell one dejected customer that Savenor’s was out of ostrich fillets. Shame. Wild boar meat suddenly caught my eye. I momentarily had fantasies of preparing a hearty boar ragu with pappardelle noodles, but the slow simmering necessary wouldn’t be feasible in my dorm room. Instead, I settled on a more George Foreman-friendly kangaroo loin. I also impulsively purchased some...