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...every woman who runs a background check on a guy who's asking her out on a date. But if you were a secret agent working undercover, you would be extra careful too. In 1997 Valerie Plame was being courted by a man who had served as a U.S. diplomat in nine countries, many in Africa, and possessed about as high a security clearance as any spy could hope for, but Plame was taking no chances. It was only after several months of dating Ambassador Joseph Wilson that Plame, supposedly a private energy analyst, revealed the name of her true...
...pricier celebration of fall, sample the eclectic delectables of EVOO (stands for Extra Virgin Olive Oil). Chef Peter McCarthy will serve a five-course dinner using Massachusetts-grown foods on October 27 at ‘’Savor the Seasoning: An Autumn Dinner.” The dinner includes a smoked goat cheese and apple butter tart, creamed parsnip soup, grilled beef club sirloin and red wine braised oxtail, and spiced pumpkin pot de creme with homemade maple-walnut semifreddo and cinnamon biscotti. The dinner costs $100 per plate, but the proceeds are being donated to the nonprofit...
...purveying inventive comedy that rarely fails to offend someone. The success of the site has made recent expansion into other media possible. First there were three books: My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush, Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was, and One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever. Following their literary success, the pair has moved into film, cutting deals to write a sports spoof called The Comebacks and to rewrite Gen CCX, a teen gladiator period comedy. They’ve also recently sold a half-hour comedy pilot...
...great economist P.T. Barnum that a sucker is born every minute, satisfying a market they have themselves created. Halloween Express, a Kentucky-based chain, now has some 70 franchised stores in 21 states. Americans will spend about $6.9 billion on Halloween this year$2 billion on candy alone, an extra $1.5 billion on costumes and much of the rest on decorations and doodads. Don't get me started on outfits for pets or the move to extend the holiday into an event that runs for a whole season so that it becomes - you'll love this--"Falloween." Only Christmas gets...
Fantasy teams would be ruined by the extra points in an overtime—owners would be rooting for their players to tie games and not win them. Right now, statistics count in overtime because the sudden death rule only extends the game for a limited time...