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...Chez Panisse chef who transformed restaurant cooking? It's because Marthaland is a one-stop shop, for everything from bed to kitchen to garden, where one thing stylishly builds on another. She pulls all this off with total earnestness (except when she is paid to be ironic by American Express, lining her swimming pool with a mosaic of cut-up credit cards). Otherwise, she stays in character: that of a demanding schoolmistress who will be coming around to test for trace elements of bottled dressing in your salade nicoise. When Bryant Gumbel tries to poke...
...Israeli negotiator at Oslo, "and the window of opportunity was open only temporarily." At 4 a.m. Thursday, after the tally turned decisively in Netanyahu's favor, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued orders to his aides not to comment on the outcome. "He knew that if they spoke, they'd express their frustrations, and that wouldn't be good for p.r.," said a senior adviser. Arafat was so demoralized that he canceled a day-after appearance on Good Morning America, conveying that he was "too depressed...
Seniors who have been nominated to receive summa degrees today downplay the award's significance and some express dissatisfaction with the way their honors distinction was determined...
Most of this year's candidates, despite their record of high grades, still express surprise about their nominations...
With the great variation in the determination of honors distinctions and the layers of bureaucracy surrounding recommendations in the last days before Commencement, some seniors--even those nominated for the summa degree--express some dissatisfaction with how it all worked...