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...precisely what I lack in Manhattan and definitely in Cambridge. Of course, I don’t speak the language, and every stilted conversation I’ve had over such meals makes the deficiency obvious. All my relatives speak English, but socially, I fail to get jokes and tend to fall silent amid idle chatter. I also find otherwise banal things overly amusing: that “super-sizing” your meal at McDonald’s is called “going big-time,” for example (and strictly biologically speaking, I begin to perspire...
...admit that usually—lost in the life my own family has led in the U.S., lost with school, and yes, lost with writing for this very newspaper—I tend to forget that so many of my roots are found right here. I was born and raised in a condominium in New York, so things like geography and language and culture obviously stand in the way of any true reunion between the two locales...
While environmentalists generally laud these efforts, corporate pledges to go green tend to be the first casualties when business gets tough, and enviros often criticize the promises as "greenwash"--really, business as usual. In 2000, Ford Motor lit up the Birkenstock crowd by promising to improve SUV fuel economy 25% by 2005; three years later, the firm reneged amid a steep sales slump and $6.4 billion in losses. Ford has started issuing reports on its environmental impact and is taking steps to address global warming. But nowhere in the publicity efforts do you hear that the firm is part...
...suitable choice. Hatch urged Clinton to forgo one of his options, former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, who Hatch thought would prove too hard to get confirmed. Instead Hatch promoted two others: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was eventually approved, and Stephen Breyer, who was appointed a year later. What conservatives tend to remember about that episode is that both Justices became stalwarts of the court's liberal wing...
...outlived its cutefulness? No, argues Amy Ryan, an analyst with New York City--based ThinkEquity: "This is a hiccup. It's a retail concept that matures in a different pattern than most retailers." New Build-A-Bear stores start out so strongly that comp-store sales a year later tend to be lower, she says, so investors have to adjust their expectations. "Build-A-Bear is not a fad," Ryan says. The company plans to open 30 more shops in 2005, expand its line of licensed merchandise, introduce "friends 2B made"--a new make-a-doll concept--and unveil...