Word: dover
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...forefront is Jean-Christophe Ansanay-Alex ("J.C. A.A." to his habitués), who likes to take an English staple like fish and chips with mushy peas and turn it into Dover sole with vegetable root chips, sauce Paloise and green-pea puree. The onetime personal chef to Christina Onassis, Ansanay-Alex gives British ingredients the Gallic once-over - think beef stuffed with oysters and served with Guinness sauce - at his South Kensington restaurant, Ambassade de L'Ile, www.ambassadedelile.com...
...capable of dystopian quips ("The garden was ruined long before/ we came to make a world of it") and existentialist shrugs ("Every player eventually dies") - but it's the lack of bitterness that makes his best pieces so moving. In "Living with Her" - reminiscent of Matthew Arnold's classic "Dover Beach" - Lee's wife urges him to come away from the window and simply lie down. Ignorant armies still clash in the night, but the prospect of a quiet moment of shared love, Lee reminds us, is enough reason to keep praising our mutilated world. "Alone in your favorite chair...
...favor of their children's enthusiastic support for Obama. Young people are enthusiastic about fast cars and loud music too, but that is no reason to embrace them. If Obama can't withstand the scrutiny of the Clinton campaign, what chance does he have against the Republicans? Ann Gardner, Dover, Delaware...
...share Senator Clinton's dismay over Democratic officials' putting aside their own judgment in favor of their children's enthusiastic support for Obama. Young people are enthusiastic about fast cars and loud music too, but that is no reason to embrace them. Ann Gardner, DOVER...
...Obama's easy brilliance, her search for a true public voice, was proving much harder than her discovery of a new mission back in India in 1995. And then it happened, in the oddest possible way. It happened at a listless rally on Monday afternoon in the town of Dover, where her husband had resurrected his cratering campaign in 1992 by declaring, "I'll be there for you until the last dog dies...