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...time I left Haiti, my belt was two notches tighter. But I wouldn't recommend the cookies as a weight-loss regimen. For starters, they taste like cardboard. Literally. Even Nicole Menage, the WFP procurement director, admitted that the cookies are "probably not extremely delicious." I had been especially unlucky in that my batch was made in Ecuador. Menage said the next Haiti-bound shipment would be coming from Turkey and have a bit more flavor. Alas, it's vanilla...
...scoring system, the "code of points," first used in Torino. I think it's raised the level of skating skill to impressive levels in ways that don't always come across on television. The edges are sharper and deeper, the footwork is cleaner and crisper, and the spins are tighter and, frankly, more like spins than the squats some skaters were getting away with for years. (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...
...talk late into the night, trying to remember what it was like for us, even as we realize how much has changed for these kids. It feels ageless, middle age, when we are suspended between twin poles: the needs of our own parents as they hang on to us tighter and the needs of our children as they push us away. Who has time to stop and look closely at the calendar...
...tally sent Harvard into the locker room on a high note, and the team came out to play a tighter third period and put the game out of reach...
...Though the leading companies in France have historically been run by a relatively small and delineated class of industrialists, analysts say that circle has, ironically, grown even tighter with the rise of globalization - and is now dominated by financiers. Analyses show that a disproportionate number of people sitting on the boards of the CAC 40 companies come from the country's largest and most influential corporations - mainly banks and financial firms - giving them considerable influence over the operations of the other companies. Four executives from the French bank BNP Paribas, for example, sit on the boards of 12 other...