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...branch, the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, was named for him after he worked to secure funding and a permanent location for the institution that had previously been located in a warehouse...
...though, going to Starbucks is decidedly pedestrian. Although plenty of tourists stop there en route from Hollywood Boulevard to Universal Studios, it is not for Angelenos. Instead, L.A.’s coffee cognoscenti head to the Mecca of Mocha: the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. There are 104 branches of the Coffee Bean in Southern California, and, apart from a handful in Arizona and Nevada, not a single branch exists elsewhere in the country...
...Coffee Bean is not especially glamorous as they go. The one on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood is legendary. That branch is filled with MAWs—“Models, Actresses, Whatever”—ostentatiously reading scripts and waiting to get discovered. Of course, there are plenty of entertainment executives out there who are very willing to discover these starlets. (And even more men who are happy to pretend they wield the necessary power.) Still, I’m consoled by the fact that a bona fide MAW works at my local branch. A while...
...Bill Clinton lied to a federal judge and lied to the citizens who had elected him. The questions in the Paula Jones deposition may have been "designed solely to trap the President into charges of perjury," but I can't accept the idea of the head of the Executive Branch lying or in any way dissembling before the Judiciary. The far greater injury, however, came when Bill Clinton lied to me. ALASTAIR DALLAS Los Gatos, Calif...
While much of Iraq is subdued, resistance to U.S. forces there remains fierce north and west of Baghdad in a triangle of territory dominated by conservative tribes adhering to Islam's Sunni branch, to which Saddam belongs. Though sporadic gunfights are to be expected in a country where AK-47s are standard home furnishings, the combatants in recent weeks have used more sophisticated weapons such as RPGs and land mines. An RPG was used to kill a U.S. soldier south of Baghdad last week a day after two Iraqis died in the capital when an American soldier fired...