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...spread featuring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt taped to the wall next to one of the office's three wooden desks. The article features photos from the couple's November visit to Vietnam, showing them cruising the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on a motorbike. There is a display of other adoptive parents with their children from the orphanage on another wall, but it's clear that Jolie, Tam Binh's most famous adoptive parent, has made a special impression...
...take stock of the ways feminist ideas have entered the bloodstream of art for good. Not only are there big, boisterous exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York City, but on March 23 feminist art's most resolute artifact, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, goes on permanent display in a specially constructed gallery within the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Say what you will about it, that it's middlebrow, elementary and literal-minded (which it is), but as a vessel to express a collective longing to rescue great women from oblivion...
...opulent Art Nouveau café at 251 Canongate offers up chocolate as it was meant to be: rich, flavorful and complex. Founder and master chocolatier Bertrand Espouy treats chocolate as sommeliers would wine, with an emphasis on origin, terroir and manufacture. The café window features a mouthwatering display of exquisite house-made pastries and cakes, and inside, diners choose from a menu of hot chocolate drinks categorized by country of origin and percentage of cocoa...
Thankfully, no preemptive strike was made, but it did make me think: Why take your house fealty to such obnoxious levels? Part of enjoying your Harvard experience is embracing its innate positives, not the reasons why you’re so much better than everyone else. By all means, display your House pride boldly, but don’t be an insufferable goon...
...getting the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government to display the same evenhandedness has been a challenge. In the West Wing on Monday, President Bush and Vice President Cheney spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki via video conference. Gesturing from a large flat panel screen in the cramped Situation Room, al-Maliki assured Bush and Cheney he was committed to implementing the most recent security plan for Iraq in an "evenhanded manner," according to the White House. That was exactly what Bush and Cheney wanted to hear...