In a City Under Strain, Ladling Out Fortification
New York Times
Then a cup of coffee, decaf. Every day except Monday, her daughter, Ines Bates, who tries in vain to get her fragile mother to cut down on these 70-hour weeks, drives her across the Taunton River to Fall River. Past the triple-decker houses...
How I learned to haggle
Salon
Fromm recommends asking for a discount on everything I buy, including my morning coffee. (I now save by brewing at home, but whatever.) "Remember, it's a game," she says. But both scenarios petrify me. "Just say, 'Is that the best you can d...
The Outback's Samson and Delilah
The Independent
Later, Delilah tries to sell paintings to stony-faced tourists drinking coffee in the mall. A waitress orders her to leave. She walks around a church in a daze, gazing at the statues of Jesus. The white priest watches her, but says nothing....
Glen Coffee goes 74th to the San Francisco 49ers
Everything Alabama Blog
Glen Coffee, headed out West... When I spoke to former Alabama running back Glen Coffee on Thursday, I asked him if he had any regrets about leaving a year early to enter the NFL Draft. Did he ever second-guess himself? " When I make a deci...
The rich get richer? NFL draft grades favor the NFC East
USA Today
RB Glen Coffee shows few measureable NFL skills, does not approach what they have in Frank Gore . LB Scott McKillop is essentially Coffee's equal, though he excelled in combine workouts. Looks like a ...
Death Row calling: The man broadcasting to save his life
The Independent
Sitting in a coffee bar at St Pancras International station in north London, Giuggioli-Firth holds a DVD she has produced about the background to the case: a documentary that the Firths are distributing through a network of online contacts ...
Alabama's Glen Coffee goes to 49ers in third round
Everything Alabama Blog
Reuters Alabama's Glen Coffeel shown here in the SEC championship game against Florida, is headed to San Francisco. Running back Glen Coffee became the second Alabama Crimson Tide player selected in the 2009 NFL draft Sunday, as the San Fra...
Texans get center, cornerback early in Day 2
Houston Chronicle
Two backs the Texans liked, Shonn Greene and Glen Coffee, were drafted before them in the second round. The Texans bolstered their defense in the first two rounds of the draft, taking USC linebacker Brian Cushing and Cincinnati defensive en...