Word: mr
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...verdict" of "kudos to HDS." We found the vegetarian hamburger to be, frankly, vile. We were amazed at HDS' lame attempt to improvise a new menu item. We compared it unfavorably to other emetics frequently served in our dining halls, such as broccoli-cheese pasta and vegetable stromboli. If Mr. Berger turns out to be partial to these dishes too, we would not dream of denying him the right to his opinion. We would, however, deny him the right to speak for the general undergraduate population, which we believe feels that the quality of the food at Harvard is inexcusably...
Stevens has been the butler at Darlington Hall in Oxfordshire since 1922. It is now 1956, and his new employer, an American named Mr. Farraday, encourages the butler to take a brief vacation in the owner's vintage Ford. Stevens hesitantly agrees. Running Darlington Hall with a staff of four, which Mr. Farraday has requested, as opposed to the 17 assistants Stevens once supervised, has been hard on his nerves. A drive to the West Country might do him good. Besides, Stevens has received a letter from Miss Kenton, the housekeeper who resigned in 1936 to be married, revealing that...
...there are the journalists. With benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Newsweek pictured a victorious Noriega on last week's cover under the telling caption "Amateur Hour." The London Economist called the episode Bush's "Bay of Piglets." In a lonely (and uncharacteristic) defense of Bush, The New York Times said, "Mr. Bush may have had good reason to temporize his backing of the Panamanian coup plotters...
...happened to see that Sweeney was playing with Mr. Defense, Ray Bourque, you would have seen that, yes, Harvard guys can play...
...Detroit last week, Honda was the first Japanese carmaker to be inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame, where his name will join those of Henry Ford and Walter P. Chrysler. "As I stand here, it feels as if I am standing on a cloud," said Kaminari-san, or Mr. Thunder, as he is known to his workers. His company has put 1.4 million American-made Hondas on the road and sold 5.1 million imports since 1970. Said he: "I found doing business here much easier than in Japan. Our company in Ohio has been so well accepted that...