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...dining hours in each House is not feasible.” We disagree. We’re willing to pay a bit more for better service, and we’d hazard to guess that a vast majority of students would agree. Unless we’re willing to fork over the cash at some point, the system will never be fixed. It is simply unacceptable that no dining hall is open past 7:30 p.m. at a college where, according to Undergraduate Council (UC) survey data, over 50 percent of undergraduates stay up past 2 a.m. Sure, there?...
...Howard's government is tired, it has lost touch with Middle Australia, its changes to workplace relations are extreme, it has neglected the environment, and the country's future wealth will be at risk when the resources boom ends. Somehow, with a mix of clich?s ("Australia has reached a fork in the road") and slogans ("China's quarry and Japan's beach"), Rudd has managed to "cut through"?the dream of political word wranglers. Inevitably, Rudd's success so far has elicited comparisons with former leader Mark Latham, who made local politics interesting in 2004. All of Canberra's political...
...mission this evening is to teach me table manners for business meals. I sit at a place setting with an array of cutlery. The fish fork, I learn, is the one with ornate tines--smaller than the main-course fork--meant to debone fish. Here comes another list of rules for me to memorize: When you excuse yourself from the table midmeal, refold your napkin and put it on your chair. When you leave the table for good, put your napkin, neatly folded, to the right of your plate. And if you don't like the food, eat it anyway...
...Sperling teaches me formal Continental-style dining, in which you don't shift your fork to your right hand after cutting. "Most people don't know how to hold the knife and fork correctly. It amazes me how few people actually know this," she says as she demonstrates. "But what if someone says, 'Lady, we're Americans. Why do we need to ape the Europeans?'" I ask her. She looks bruised, and I wonder if she's going to cry. "I don't make up the rules. I just pass them along," she says. "I truly believe that without these...
...final round, Pachter and I go to the Fountain, an elegant, chandeliered restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philly. I'm daydreaming about the Coach bag I'm going to buy. I order fish, and I know exactly which fork to select. I'm a Biz Et grad, after all. Then as I continue my witty repartee, I lean on my bread dish, sending the butter knife clattering to the floor. We both burst out laughing...