It was the third fire in a little more than four years at the property owned by Cross International, and it was one those who saw it wouldn't soon forget — not the men who used a truck as a battering ram to burst through the barn, and not the men who pulled horses out one by one, choking on smoke throughout it all.
On the floor below her lay five of her fellow students at East Heights Elementary School. Rolling back and forth, their voices shushed and shushed, their movements convincingly like the sea.
What is a leek? A cousin to the odorous and more pronounced onions and garlic, it’s essentially a whisper in the produce aisle. Relatively unused in these parts, this vegetable is rarely hawked from some corner farm stand. In fact, not many people even know what a leek is, much less where it comes from. Nor might they care. But with the right chef, a leek — or two or three or four — can become a delicacy.
What do Charlie Hebdo and freedom of expression have to do with wine? Plenty, and in different ways. According to Robert Camuto’s story in the March 31 issue of Wine Spectator, three of the 12 people killed in those attacks were among France’s most outrageous wine-label designers: Stéphane Charbonnier, Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac.
So when Jamie Heistand discovered that the son of his new employee needed a little guidance, boxing seemed like one way to give it to him.