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...think it of very great importance," wrote Gouverneur Morris to George Washington in 1790, advising him on how to furnish the presidential mansion, "to fix the taste of our country properly...everything about you should be substantially good and majestically plain, made to endure." Modern Americans are taught to love luxury, to think of it as a reward for success. Those of the late 18th century were more apt to distrust it as a vice. They associated it with frivolity, decadence--colonial rule. Virtue showed itself in plainness, explicitness, pragmatism, "making do," an unfussed directness of craftsmanship. There...
...requests for extradition made by the previous government and rejected the two others. It conducted "lightning trials" similar to the one in the case of the Tzurs' murderers for the suspects in the murders of Uri Shahor and Ohad Bachrach last year, chiefly in order to furnish excuses to impede extradition...
...mind-numbing tirades about bureaucracy. Here's a simple suggestion: every student should get a call from a tutor or a proctor at least twice a semester. Without that kind of personal contact, stressed students will continue to fall through the cracks. And maybe an older, wiser friend can furnish some perspective...
...crash an Air France pilot flying in the same area had made an abrupt in-flight maneuver, then announced that someone was firing missiles in the area. Salinger says his source was a passenger on the flight. FBI agents who interviewed Salinger soon after say he did not furnish the name of the passenger or the flight number. Federal investigators claim they interviewed the crews of all known flights in the area that night and got no such report...
...year ago, when ELTON JOHN's live-in companion, former ad exec David Furnish, began shooting a biography of the superstar rocker, no one expected much in the way of candor. After all, John was paying for the shoot and, having been burned in the past by stories of drug abuse, was acutely aware of the value of image control. This week the finished film, Tantrums and Tiaras, premieres in Britain and turns out to be far from a whitewash. Furnish's work documents a tantrum or two as it follows the rocker backstage, in his private jet and around...