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Which led my husband to pose the question to our daughters, What would Jesus watch? That in turn led to an intriguing--and useful--conversation around our dinner table. It's the oldest teacher's trick, better to show than tell: the Sermon on the Mount was clean and clear, but Jesus also offered parables, little mysteries to unwrap and examine for their coded messages. This is a delivery device especially good for teenagers building their rebellious muscles...
...spontaneity. His meeting with Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao was, to put it kindly, stilted. Flash forward a week to the lawns of the White House and the difference couldn't be more palpable. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the guest of honor at the first-ever official state dinner in the Obama era, was feted in an atmosphere of easy conviviality, surrounded by a bubbly cast of celebrities and power brokers who toasted the bonds between the world's largest democracies. (Read "Singh in Washington: Making the Case for India...
There’s a D.C. “Housewives?” Hell yeah. In fact, soon-to-be D.C. housewife Michaele Salahi got some great pub for the show last week with a super classy visit to the White House state dinner. I know it’s hard to follow the table flipping and stripper accusations of New Jersey or the spray-on tan recession woes of Orange County, but this girl really brought it. Meeting Obama is consequential. Being on the guest list and not freaking out the nation is not. Secret Service, you need...
...other news, Professors Rothschild and Sen brushed elbows with the now infamous couple at the State Dinner. "I remember thinking that Mrs. Salahi looked very pretty in her sari," Sen wrote, "but a little unsure about what to do with so much drapery...
...what does being a State Dinner crasher get you? Subpoenaed, apparently. In light of today's congressional hearing looking into the antics of the now infamous Salahis, Flyby talked to Harvard's very own History Professor Emma Rothschild and her husband Professor of Economics and Philosophy Amartya Sen who were two of the lucky few to get an invite to the first State Dinner of the Obama administration...