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2013 LETTERS -new- Sobre El Mate (April 24, 2013) "Mate drinking at its best is a fine social experience. One gourd is passed around, the beverage sipped out of the leaves with a bombilla straw that has a filter at the bottom so that the liquid alone can be sipped, the leaves staying in the gourd. The server keeps refilling the gourd with hot water after each participant drains the vessel. The gourd never is set down but passed back and forth from hand to hand." To read more, click here. Advertising Shots Heard Around the World (March 27, 2013) "Advert thinking, we find, now colors every presentation and every product or service offering. That means products and services and people are increasingly more and more about the packaging and less and less about the substance." To read more, click here. Our Fondness for Scalawags, Charlatans, Mountebanks, Scoundrels, and Assorted Others of Similar Ilk (March 13, 2013) "We like chaps who smile and make us smile. Who toss down steaks and lobsters, have bulges in their clothing from too much enjoyment, and probably a swelling in their wallets from having made fast and loose with the public purse." To read more, click here. War Never Ends (January 23, 2013) "If you fight long and often enough, does it make you fractious? Does some of the polarity we see in politics and sense in society result from too much war?" To read more, click here. You Don't Say (January 2, 2013) "Better yet, a formal stylish dinner could be just the thing to deny all the strife and meanness that is roaming through so many streets of the world" To read more, click here.
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