When Sonic first opened in Oklahoma in 1953, it was considered revolutionary for its ordering process. Customers could drive into a lane, order through a speaker, and never leave their cars as their food was brought out to them. The company still features carhops (aka servers on skates) and...
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become ...
The Continuing Battle over Appointments The tension between Congress and the presi- dent persists, and Congress often suffers when the president can act unilaterally on a matter on which the public appears to side with him. During his first term, President Obama was regularly frustrated by Senate...