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...delivers her reflections on everyday life in natty couplets. Allen sings over the sunny Caribbean vibe of LDN, "There was a little old lady, who was walkin' down the road, She was struggling with bags from Tesco/ There were people from the City having lunch in the park/ I believe that it's called alfresco." The little old lady then gets mugged. Allen bemoans modern life over hyper '60s pop on Everything's Just Wonderful: "In the magazines they talk about weight loss/ If I buy those jeans I can look like Kate Moss." But the most withering put-downs...
Inflation, Senator. And growth rates. And the current account deficit. And inflation. And maybe what's for lunch. When he took over the Fed from Alan Greenspan on Feb. 1, Bernanke became the man portrayed as having his hand on the controls of the U.S. economy. If prices rise rapidly or the economy slows, Bernanke gets blamed. If the economy continues to grow at a healthy clip, he's celebrated...
...that all-important personality test may well be a college career spent playing poker and doing tequila shots. An Atlanta woman I interviewed, a skilled website writer, was fired without explanation after a few weeks at a job. "I tried to fit in," she told me. "I went to lunch with the guys, but all they talked about was sports, which I know nothing about, and they all seemed to know each other from college." Poor thing, she had probably wasted her college years in the library...
...Stopping for lunch at an upscale Crepe-Away diner, I'm taken aback by the sheer normality of the scene. Young people hanging out and flirting? Check. Bad American pop music on the loudspeakers? Yeah, got that. Families playing peek-a-boo with their kids over menus? That, too. It was a typical Lebanese scene and one that would be instantly recognizable in, say, northern California. It was easy to forget that just a few miles down the mountain roads, people could suffer an Israeli air strike at any minute - in fact, if there had been any bombings, we would...
...Vittoria, a homespun Torino trattoria where plates clank every time the nearby kitchen door swings open. But for John Elkann, the 30-year-old who is vice chairman of both Fiat and IFIL, the Agnelli family's $7.7 billion holding company, it is the perfect setting for a power lunch. "You know why I really like this place?" he asks, lowering his voice and widening his eyes. "Because it's fast...