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...Charlie gimcracks, which can store money for multiple trips and function much like debit cards, don’t yet work at any other point in the MBTA’s system—including the Silver Line extension to the airport, which opened a month...
...from behind closed doors), the presidency has been a strategic bully pulpit for those with ideas different from the theocracy. Now with Rafsanjani humiliated at the polls and reformists crying in the wilderness, Khamenei has an acolyte as President. Ahmadinejad, says a political scientist based in Tehran, will effectively function as Khamenei's "executive secretary." The opposition in Iran grumbles that Khamenei's hand--and funds--may have given the modest Ahmadinejad's campaign a huge and unfair boost. The former mayor's supporters say otherwise. Says one: "We believe God's hand is higher than everything else...
...Deux Abbesses (lesdeuxabbesses.com)-named after Isabel and Gabrielle de Lafayette, two 16th century mothers superior (and ancestors of the Franco-American revolutionary, Marquis de Lafayette), who used Saint-Arcons-d'Allier as their summer retreat. They would be gratified to know that the village fulfils the same function today (the hotel is closed in winter), and relieved to hear that the original architecture has been respected. The rooms come appointed with antique Auvergnat furniture, Renaissance fireplaces, and even bread ovens. (If you would rather break bread than make it, candlelit dinners are served nightly in the château...
...voices the same hope to a representative from the U.S. Information Agency, who meets them at the gate. The implied question is evaded. "I asked you if Mrs. Reagan will be there," repeats Wanda. "I want an answer." The answer is no. It is not an official function, so only the President will be present. "I am insulted," says Wanda, her voice rising. "I have come to Washington with my husband as his wife to meet the President and his wife. I am going to Russia with my husband. I do not understand why I have come here...
Perhaps most disturbing of all, the new test measured only bedrock inability to read, with no attempt to establish the number of U.S. adults who, although technically literate, cannot read well enough to function as successful citizens. Such a measure of functional illiteracy, say Barnes and other experts, would be even more disheartening. Indeed, a study published by the University of Texas in 1975 suggested that one in five Americans cannot read well enough to perform the simplest tasks. Of 15,000 tested, 20% could not write a check without an error so serious that a bank could not cash...