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...ate the wild blueberries...
...posh French restaurant Sans Souci. The rare public lunch proved to be a huge headache for the Secret Service but a field day for reporters (four of them feasted at a nearby table). Ford downed two martinis and a chefs salad; his wife sipped gin-and-tonics and ate Dover sole. The tab came to $25.36, and Betty Ford picked...
...fellow delegate, a parochial school graduate from Duluth, gave me several disapproving glances as we ate. Perhaps what we were discussing wasn't proper in the Senate dining hall, but Mondale seemed eager to entertain questions. In fact, anytime there was a silence he would ask us a question...
...class" must take on the "challenge of reformation and reconstitution" to head off a "calamitous" fate at the hands of a young elite full of contempt for the liberal tradition of the West. The crowd--dominated by Harvard alumni, hardly the victims of the "liberal" system Moynihan was eulogizing--ate it up, especially when a handful of protesters perched on the steps of Widener briefly chanted "Racist Moynihan," confirming everyone's suspicion that, yes, Western democracy like the Roman empire is in its decline and fall...
...Bishop of Leon in France excommunicated the caterpillars that were consuming local crops. In 1488 the high vicar of Autun took a similar step; he directed priests of neighboring parishes to order weevils to stop their attacks on grainfields and to excommunicate the insects. Undeterred, the weevils ate...