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...sold far more umbrellas than usual - even to Parisians," said Vincent, an attendant in a souvenir shop near Notre Dame who didn't want to give his last name. "But the stuff that usually sells best in summer - T shirts, tank tops, lighter stuff - didn't do as well as usual...
...Monday, a chapter was closed in the social history of New York City: a great dame, the arbiter of New York society, died without leaving any successors. Brooke Astor, who passed away at age 105, was a combination of the Victorian age, with all its wit and elegance, and of the modern era, with its sharp-minded determination. She had taste, discernment, character, compassion, and was extraordinarily generous. She ran a great salon where the meek and the mighty met as equals. She had a profound respect for democracy and believed, as I do, that democracy and excellence...
...Today I feel French, surely an ersatz Frenchman but nevertheless French. I sneer at fat American tourists with their oversized maps, mispronouncing Notre Dame and screaming from their tourboats as if they were riding a rollercoaster at Walt Disney World. I have spent many hours explaining to my French friends that a lot of Americans actually hate George Bush, but my ardent desire to defend the U.S. against all slights is waning by the day. I feel embarrassed when my accent betrays me as an American, and defiantly continue to speak French even when addressed in English...
...first had to make it through the round-robin play—which he did handily, winning 19 of 22 bouts—and then through two of the top fencers in the country in final-four play. In his final bout, the senior was matched up against Notre Dame fencer Patrick Ghattas, who had finished second two years running. The matchup came down to the slimmest of margins, as Hagamen edged out a 15-14 victory in a back-and-forth battle. The individual title was just the fourth in Harvard history and the first in the saber...
Central Florida, Dartmouth, Standford and UCLA were the four teams selected as at-large bids in the varsity eight. The other 11 teams are Yale, Washington, Virginia, Southern California, Princeton, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Minnesota, California, Brown and host-Tennessee...