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...Some say formal hats went out of fashion when J.F.K. delivered his Inaugural Address without one. Others blame their demise on the rise of the automobile, which meant that fewer men had to spend time out in the cold walking or waiting for the bus. But in the past two or three years, thanks to popular musicians like Justin Timberlake and Usher, formal hats like the fedora and the pork-pie have become popular again. (See pictures of the fashion of Michelle Obama...
...Alla Giudia. As we left the restaurant, two middle-aged Englishmen approached us. They asked about the restaurant. My roommate described our meal passionately, detailing the history, preparation, and complex flavors of each dish. As she and I began to walk toward Largo Argentina, to catch the number 40 bus toward home, the taller man called out. “I’m not Jewish, but he is,” he said. “Is that alright?” I smiled. “No problem,” I said to him. I turned...
...Washington expect record crowds for Jan. 20 - record lines at the Porta-Potty too - and closing time at several hundred local bars and watering holes has been extended practically into the breakfast hour for celebrators' convenience. (Tourism is getting a boost outside D.C. too: in Honolulu, a $40 bus ride will take you to see where Obama scooped ice cream as a teen.) We have an economic stimulus plan, and his name is Barack Obama. (See pictures of Obama on Flickr...
...while watching the acceptance speech with my American flatmates at the breakfast table the next morning).Now it is the last day of class. I am shivering outside the behemoth shadow of the Facultad with friends and classmates from Spain, Mexico, Italy, and Virginia. We are waiting for the bus and talking politics again, this time about Mexican elections and the trouble the foreigners are in for not having packed. Though we’ve come here with the wildly different frames of reference you’d expect from such an assortment, and even when my left is someone...
...political pundit Robert R. Winters, a Harvard Extension School instructor, dismissed the suggestion that civil liberties were threatened by surveillance cameras. “I see this as completely benign, completely a non issue,” Winters said, noting that surveillance cameras commonly operate around ATM machines and bus stops. “The two words that say it all are ‘public street.’ A public street is just that: you are out in public, and every pair of eyes on every human being is doing surveillance on you. It’s just...