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...monstrous and ridiculously inexpensive plate of omurice—which is, more or less, an omelet stuffed with rice—I can’t help but smile as T-Pain’s “Get Low” blasts from the Western-themed sports bar across the street from my apartment. Sitting in a sticky, hot room listening to music a few months past its prime, I might as well be at a Harvard dorm party...
DIED Former civil rights attorney Revius Ortique Jr. was a serial pioneer: the first African-American justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, he was also the first black member of the Louisiana house of delegates; president of the National Bar Association, an organization of black attorneys; and chief judge on Louisiana's civil district court. Ortique, a New Orleans native, also served on commissions and boards at the pleasure of five U.S. Presidents...
...find it difficult to play a character and be in a series that was already a huge hit in the UK without being compared to that original series? -Mike Payne, OKLAHOMA CITYIt's very daunting. The bar was set so high with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that we tried to take some of the pressure off of ourselves; we knew the template was great but we had no delusions of trying to improve upon the original. We tried to lower everybody's expectations, frankly, tried to set the bar within reason, because there was no way I was going...
...when his handlers take away the teleprompter and allow him to interact with the crowd, McCain becomes a candidate transformed. He begins to have fun, spinning stories like an old sailor on a bar stool and speaking with clarity about the issues that move him most, which now include three thematic touchstones of the campaign: reform, prosperity and peace. Though many of his words are memorized, repeated verbatim at each stop, they still manage to come across as conversational. McCain usually speaks for about 30 minutes and then opens the room up to questions. In a typical session, McCain takes...
Many Europeans are surprised that 53% of the Irish, who have done so well out of E.U. membership, should vote against the treaty. All their political leaders bar Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams, and all the mainstream newspapers, called for a yes. But Ireland's voters reacted against the establishment telling them what to do by giving it a kicking. A slick no campaign played on fears that the treaty would lead to higher taxes (untrue) and deprive Ireland of its right to appoint an E.U. commissioner (true). The yes campaign failed to provide good reasons for supporting a document...