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...claim that Khalilzad, an energetic Afghan American, is trying to induce several candidates--including the President's main rival, Qanooni--to drop out and throw their support behind Karzai. The ambassador denies that, even though one candidate, Mohammed Mohaqiq, went public with such an accusation. Khalilzad and Karzai dine together at least three times a week, palace insiders say, and many Afghans, by nature conspiratorially minded, are convinced that the election's outcome is rigged to favor Karzai...
...hour-long question and answer session which followed the screening, Orlean expressed her admiration for the shadowy Donald Kaufman, instantly naming him as the one person, dead or alive, with whom she would choose to dine given the chance...
TIME: And of course on every wedding anniversary you dine at Wendy's, where you spent your first one. Mrs. Kerry, where do you and Senator Kerry spend your anniversaries...
Former President George H.W. Bush is the only person on this planet who can casually prowl by jet, ship and train the upper reaches of power from London to Beijing, dine intimately with heads of state, call the President of the U.S. when he wants, e-mail any of 14 grandchildren about school and baseball ("Astros might go to the World Series"), talk details with a handyman making repairs on the house that has been his spiritual home for eight decades, track menacing chipmunks in the flower beds and then turn and embrace a visiting billionaire...
...only do these plans offer more options, they make a specific effort to cater to students’ notoriously hectic schedules. Unlike Annenberg, which has a rigid schedule that causes first-years to adopt geriatric eating habits and dine at 5 p.m., institutions such as Princeton serve dinner until 10 p.m. (though limited after 9 p.m.)—every college student’s dream. And in that awkward afternoon window where you’re always wishing you could grab a snack? You should be wishing you were at Yale, where some dining halls stay open continuously from...