Guy Flirting: A game of chicken that's not for fun
Fast food rivals spar for millions
SAN ANTONIO - Church's Fried Chicken Inc. is losing money and closing stores, but Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken and Biscuits wants to buy the company anyway, and feathers are flying in a bitter takeover battle. Church's, the nation's No. 2 chicken chain, has been battered by the Texas recession and has watched profits drop for four years in a row.The No. 3 chicken chain, Popeyes of Jefferson, La., wants to be bigger. It's offering $8 per...
Guy Flirting: ON THE WRONG TRACK BRITISH NOVELIST MARTIN AMIS TAKES A STAB AT A HARD-BOILED WHODUNIT -- AMERICAN STYLE
So let's say you're a brilliant, dark-hearted, lethally ironic, maybe half-bored Brit, a guy flirting with 50 but still irritatingly referred to by his countrymen as an enfant terrible. Let's say you're one of the funniest serious writers alive -- never mind that you're Kingsley Amis's son -- and you've written several intelligent novels that actually mattered, as well as a couple that didn't....
Guy Flirting: Jays' Leiter lets one slip away Good beginning blown apart by Red Sox outburst
BOSTON - It may be time for a thorough search of U.S. hospital records. The official team biographies of Blue Jay pitchers Al Leiter and Todd Stottlemyre show Leiter is a 28-year-old lefthander born in Toms River, N.J., while Stottlemyre is a 29-year-old righty from Yakima, Wash.Red Sox 7, Jays 2 Opposite coasts. Opposite throwing arms. But somehow, some way, these two have got to be related.Stottlemyre for years has been a guy flirting with the idea of turning the corner, yet...
Guy Flirting: WOMEN MAKE IMPACT IN BOSNIA, FEMALE TROOPS HAVE OWN PLACE IN MISSION
DUBRAVE, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Her head poking out of the Humvee's machine-gun turret, Pfc. Lisa Adams talks about the two men with whom she patrols the northeast Bosnian tinderbox."Andy, he's only 5-percent sexist. He's pretty good," said Adams, of Calumet in the Upper Peninsula's Houghton County, nodding toward driver Spec. Ryan Anderson."Now him, he's about 99.9-percent...