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CHARLES DE GAULLE: A BIOGRAPHY by Don Cook: Putnam; 432 pages...
...speaker ever took himself quite so seriously? The man who rescued France from ignominy in World War II and from constitutional paralysis afterward was not always as good as his word, much to the exasperation of his wartime Allies and the puzzlement of his countrymen. But as Don Cook, longtime Paris bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, points out in this robust, unsentimental biography, Charles de Gaulle never deviated from the idea that animated his entire career. As he once summed it up, "France cannot be France without greatness...
Today' co-op students still cook the meals and cleans the building, but many of them are men and their philosophy is usually a far cry from Jordan's attitude on the purpose...
...learn to cook amazing meals, but more than that you develop a sense of community [through the chores]. It's like a family here--you really get to know the other co-op residents and they form your support network," says Browning, adding, "Besides, if you were living in a house, you'd spend that time hanging out with your friends anyway. Cooking dinner with someone is just another way of hanging out. In fact, around here you have to guard against hanging out too much...
...Last year people were much more on their own. Someone would cook dinner and a lot of people wouldn't show up," says Browning. "Now we have people who are really attracted to communal living. For example, at the beginning meeting of this year we needed someone to clean out the pantry and five people volunteered...