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...group of three pachyderms, a male seized the moment to make an amorous move. The engagement was protracted. The President's pickup had to just sit there. Bush turned once to smile at the press pool following behind him and after the two animals separated, snapped his baseball cap on his head as if he'd just come out the other end of an unexpectedly brisk carnival ride. "It's the heavy petting zoo," quipped one reporter...
...manner, leavened by the wit and joie de vivre the French so adored, he portrayed the American cause, through his own personification of it, as that of the natural state fighting the corrupted one. He made a point of eschewing powdered wigs and formal dress, instead wearing a fur cap he had picked up years earlier on a trip to Canada. The cap, like that worn by Rousseau, served as his badge of homespun purity and virtue, just as his ever present spectacles became an emblem of wisdom. It helped him play the part that Paris imagined for him: that...
...regalia that were considered de rigueur at court. Seeing no reason to abandon the simple style that had served him well, he dressed in a plain brown suit with his famous spectacles as his only adornment. His one fashion concession was that he did not wear his fur cap and instead carried a hat of pure white under his arm. "Is that white hat a symbol of liberty?" asked an aristocratic woman at whose salon Franklin had worn his fur cap. Whether or not he meant it to be, white hats for men were soon in vogue in Paris...
...knew that [the national hour-cap] was going to happen at some point,” said Meigs Professor of Gynecology Isaac Schiff, who heads the department. “We began to respond to it and anticipate it. Our residents are excellent residents; we thought it would be better for our own well-being if they could be alert and not exhausted and provide the best care...
...wish that I, personally, and the medical profession, in general, had more data on the issues,” Fleisher said. “[An appropriate cap] might be 60 [hours], 100, somewhere in between, or completely different for various individuals. We can only hope they made the right guess when they pulled...