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...talk about the environment and promises to make the Israeli-Palestinian peace process a top priority, the Europeans know the reason is that Washington has been humbled by events. Indeed, it may be a measure of how the strategic balance has shifted that President Bush not only tosses around bon-mots from the existentialists; he hosts a dinner for President Chirac - a European leader he plainly detests, and who has not given an inch in his opposition to U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. France won't even consent to U.S. pressure to make the relatively...
...Anyone who watched Carson, studied him, as we all did, for decades, saw two things: the Univac brain, riffling through the comic possibilities as he listened to his guest, and an instant later ejected the perfect bon mot; and his distance from the action, as if he were watching the show and himself from some Olympian aerie, where it was always cool. Tynan writes of Carson appraising the other guests at a party, "his eyes twinkling like icicles." It was what we know, from Carson's avatar Letterman, as Midwestern cool: ingratiating but withholding...
...officer was dispatched to Au Bon Pain on Mass. Ave. to investigate the theft of a red wallet holding credit cards and cash and a silver Sony TGV25 camcorder, amounting to $1,110 of stolen goods...
...Officers were sent to Au Bon Pain on Mass. Ave. to remove a couple “disturbing the peace.” Upon arrival, one person had already left the area and HUPD escorted the other off the premises...
After a brief stint at computer programming school, Turnbull began playing chess part-time in Harvard Square in 1982. The following year, Au Bon Pain opened and he started playing chess there full-time, which he says he has done ever since July...