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...still have a chance to catch up on the green. I'm zenning over my putt when Sawat surprises me by picking up the ball. She lines up the putt then draws an imaginary arc where I'm supposed to roll it. "Left to right," she says, pulling the flag to pinpoint the target five feet left of the hole. "Downhill putt...
...architectural delight, its two floors incorporate as many styles as the café has historically had functions (stock and grain exchange, casino, ballroom). Pedrocchi's high ceilings, terraces and Doric columns are decidedly grand. The ground floor is divided into three areas named for the colors of the Italian flag. Skip the house special, tagliatelle al caffè - as gimmicky as coffee-flavored pasta sounds - and go straight for the miraculous rum-spiked zabaglione. The French novelist Stendhal considered Pedrocchi the best restaurant in Italy, and so loved the zabaglione that he wrote about it in The Charterhouse of Parma...
Over the past couple of weeks a number of very disturbing attacks have taken place in New Haven. First, several intruders broke into the room of a Yale sophomore who displayed an upside-down American flag in her window to express her opposition to the ongoing war in Iraq. They left hateful messages directed against the student herself, and more broadly, against Muslims and Iraqis. Several days later, Yalies holding a silent vigil in memory of Iraqi civilian casualties were spit upon and harassed at residential college dining halls. Then came more affronts: an obscene and threatening message was left...
...have an opening now, free from our ’60s flag anxiety and our automatic no,” he writes. “It is time for a liberal patriotism, robust, unapologetic, and uncowed...
...wrong.’ We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had: the individual’s right to oppose both flag and country when he believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism...