Word: memorabilia
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...chic and pricey China Club in Hong Kong is about the only place in China where you'll find fortune cookies served after a meal. Like the Cultural Revolution memorabilia in the club's bar, the cookies are meant to be amusing and ironic. But the fact that they're an in-joke among Hong Kong's fashionable diners, as opposed to the time-honored conclusion to meals that they are in Chinese restaurants in the U.S., illustrates just how divorced real Chinese cooking has become from its American offshoot...
...Commencement approaches, though, the celebration of these academic accomplishments seem to have been elevated to a new level and an expensive one, at that. Tickets can be purchased for the various family events, as well as for the Senior Week events preceding it. Mailing after solicitous mailing about graduation memorabilia begs for seniors’ attention seniors are preoccupied with theses, the job search, and the application to graduate school. Other mailings are sent only to parents, leaving seniors in the dark about whether they want their diploma framed or a yearbook. It seems once again the message being sent...
...power was not politically innocent; it fed directly into the country's rising nationalism, a cause ardently embraced by the poet-pilot Gabriele D'Annunzio. He became the figurehead of the Irredentists, who wanted once-Italian territories returned to their homeland. The show includes such pathos-laden d'Annunzio memorabilia as the tattered logbook he kept when he drove at the head of the ill-fated invasion of Fiume in Dalmatia in 1919, and letters written to him in the 1920s by Fiat boss Giovanni Agnelli...
...watching the zamboni clean the ice for ten minutes, just imagine a few John Harvard mascots having a race. It might even shape up to be a fun betting game.Why stop the entertainment there when the Crimson could shower its fans with free food, t-shirts, and other random memorabilia? The possibilities for this type of giveaway are honestly endless, and every year it seems like some team out there finds a way to make the giveaways into an even bigger spectacle. Why have a random drawing when those zamboni-dodging, speed skating John Harvards could hurl them from...
...Shenzhen factory and shipped on time to a store near you. Leading an army of 7,162 workers in nearly 40 countries, Li & Fung is the world's largest consumer-products sourcing company, last year managing the manufacture of more than $6 billion worth of toys, clothes, memorabilia and even auto parts for the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch, Advance Auto Parts, Coke and Kohl's. "They are our eyes and ears," says Laura Willensky, vice president of merchandising and design for Gymboree, a San Francisco--based women's- and children's-apparel chain...