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Perfect for those who daydream about having a pied-a-terre in Paris is 3 Rooms, an 18th century house on the Rue de Moussy whose modest moniker belies the fact that it's a trio of 1,000-sq.-ft. (100 sq m) apartments. The hotel, nestled in the heart of the lively Marais district, is one of several buildings comprising almost an entire block owned by Tunisian-born fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa - encompassing the designer's own residence, studio, ready-to-wear store and offices - which manager Patrice Brunel describes as "like...
...audiences that used to crowd the little Ruski Teatr in Riga there would be no more after-theatre suppers in the warm and friendly Café Schwarz. Wilno's Niemiecka and Tatarska Streets, once thronged by students of Talmudic learning, were empty. Gaon Street, named for Gaon Rabbi Elijah, the 18th-Century miracle-working rabbi of Wilno, was deserted...
...Barnhill found himself at home in 76 Mt. Auburn, in rooms decorated with oil portraits and 16th-century tapestries. Up the stairs a series of Hogarth prints illustrates, with delicate irony, the dissipation of 18th-century England...
...assigned itself a "civilizing mission" to improve allies and colonies alike. In 2005, the government even ordered high schools in France to teach "the positive role" of French colonialism, i.e. uplifting the natives. (The decree was later rescinded.) Like a certain other nation whose founding principles sprang from the 18th century Enlightenment, France is not shy about its values. As Sarkozy recently observed: "In the United States and France, we think our ideas are destined to illuminate the world...
Obaidat is lucky. The zoo where he works is regarded as the one place in Jerusalem where Muslims, Christians, secular Jews in shorts and tank tops and ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing their 18th century finery all co-exist happily; director general Shai Doron thinks that's because the presence of other animals reminds visitors that despite their differences, they are all members of the same species. And Doron has no tolerance for ultra-Orthodox visitors who demand that he fire Arabs in the cafeteria because they might be plotting to poison Jews...